Ok, thank you. I tried Zorin at 27th August.
Maybe i have to have a look at the mainboard and its drivers.
I know theres a problem with the soundchip in linux, but i got it to work and had good sound on the mx500.
Think i got to go into myself if i go to zorin or Win 11 on the desktop.
If it not works with Zorin use a different distro, microsoft uses alot of spyware and such.
My nvme refuses too with systemd bootloader, i installed linux on a sata m2 and it works just fine. I use the nvme for downloaded stuff and games. nvme does have good speeds but you would not notice much difference at all when booting.
I also refuse to use any microsoft products ever...used windows for 21 years (if not longer) and i am tired of them. Their spyware policy and their idiotic specs for a updated windows 10 aka 11 is just stupid...forcing to buy new hardware for they stupid toy(s).
Yes i know, but my nvme has 250GB and my sata has got 1TB(Gaming SSD).
I want the system to be on a seperate drive 
I fell in love with Zorin on my Laptop, so..if it wont work right know.. Ill just wait until it works, maybe 
I am using my pc for Video/sound editing and also for gaming, so windows is very comfortable at that. But i see how gaming is getting better and better on linux.
Good idea -but i also tried Fedora with 5.12 in August - same Problems.
Well, NVME drives better get unproblematic real quick, its not like they are going away you know. Look at any PC gaming enthusiast PC, and you often times don't even find SATA drives in them anymore! They will have usually 1 or 2 NVME drives directly mounted to the motherboard, this is common practice.
If there is any type of driving that is going to be going away soon, it will be SATA drives. The 2.5" drive has been great and all, but with companies trying to make things smaller and cleaner, you have to make a sacraphice somehwere.
And look at the new Steam Deck! For portable handhelds, not even a full sized NVME will fit! There is yet another new standard making its way now, and its what the Steam Deck uses.
See that? M.2230 Look how small it is! Well, give it a couple more years, and you will see notebooks coming with these things as standard.
That 2230 card looks awesome!, aliexpress has nice adapters for it to make it larger
Like this?
Keep in mind however, this may allow you to use modern NVME drives with a SATA III connection. However, if your computer is more then a few years old, you will probably require a BIOS update to utilize the drivers properly.
No, more like this. I use it in my notebook
Ohhhh ok, so its just some kind of length adapter then. The color of that thing would clash so hard with my computer if it was used.
Then again, I see those red thingies in my notebook, I wonder if those are anti-vibration orings below the screws or something?
Well i used it because the second slot was much longer, acer created it's own adapter for it for the cost of $40-50 dollars haha. Aliexpress thought we can do it for a few bucks.
Here are some screenshots from my custom made small adapter.
If you look closely at the second picture you see the 980 nvme, on top the second m2 with extension gets added.
To get a better view of how it look, this is a picture of my older nvme card + the extra m2 sata slot.
Dude, I loved your pictures that you took, especially the last one. So thats cool to see that your notebook as two NVME slots too, yours does them stacked I see. Mine has two NVME slots too, but they are side to side of each other.
Thats neat what you did with the adapter, and yes I agree, about anyone can probably do the adapter for cheaper then Acer lol. I love your ingenuity, and trying out new things.
You seemed to have fully embraced the SSD life, which I love. I too have embraced SSD only these days, I will never go back to mechanical, I don't care about many TB of storage mechanical has, mechanical sucks.
Yes right, NVMe is getting used more and more.
At Desktops 2,5" Sata is still used - but newer boards are able to take more m.2 SSDs
But in my case it seems, after this thread, i have to search the problems beside the NVMe.
Yes, you`re right - Windows is very comfortable here.
No, im not anymore - im playing Diablo 2 Ressurected right now - a bit red dead redemption 2... Cyberpunk 2077..
In addition, steam is working hard to bring games to work on Linux :>
Their new Handheld is based on Linux, so there could be a big rise on working steam-games :>
But after all you`re right, Windows is, right now, the better way for gamers.
I am a heavy gamer Tom, so I am running POP OS on my main gaming machine. Additionally, I have a Western Digital NVME drive that came with the notebook, and it works perfectly fine, never had an issue with it in POP OS.
Now we have been talking about issues with Samsung branded NVME drives, and so maybe most of the incompatibilities, revolve around Samsung drives?
And I am running Zorin OS on my older dual core notebook workstation computer. I don't do any gaming on it. I did used to game on Zorin OS though, but it was back on OS 12.4 that I was doing that.
Zorins took too long to release OS 16, and I wasn't going to install 15.3 just to be able to use a later kernel. My new computer is a 2021 machine, so I needed a new kernel, and POP OS supported newer kernels to be able to utilize my newer hardware.
Anyways, I guess when it comes to compatibility and what is not compatible, and what is compatible, I think its going to fall on us users at the end of the day right. Cause we have to do the research, Linux isn't going to magically do it for us lol.
You gotta find out what will work with what. Thats the whole reason I went with POP OS, cause OS 16 hadn't been released, and I knew that my new computer needed a newer kernel, otherwise I wouldn't be able to use my hardware, it be incompatible. Its really that simple.
And as far as NVME drives. I think what were learning here, is that Western Digital NVME drives are perhaps a better fit for Linux. Cause like I said, I am rocking one and I have no issues, not a single one!
Michels NVMe is an Samsung, but mine is an PNY CS3030. Also Tom is using the CS3030 with Zorin OS and it works perfectly.
That`s the reason why we are searching for the issue on my hardware^^
Yeah, would be great! As the steam-deck uses Linux, it should improve^^
Have you ever tried Epic-Games over Lutris?
Edit: we are far away from the Threads topic right now
It has one nvme slot and one m2 sata slot. I made a mistake inthe past to put a nvme card upside down so it would fit l, results a dead nvme chip
It can be motherboard related. My bios is locked by acer.
I`m 34, i know all of them 
35 here 
