Just for your info, I bought all titanium clad HP Elitebook for just over 240 Euro sometime ago at eBay. It is like one quarter of the original price.
I even did not have to auction it. I selected a professional seller with a good reputation in my own country and picked what I thought most compatible for my needs.
In your opinion, was it worth it or do you have better options?
I am also running MXLinux on Raspberrry Pi4. You can pick up 8 GB model around 100 Euro. Mine is 4 GB model but it is fast enough for the basic computing needs.
The distro you can install on RPi4 is rather limited, but there will be absolutely no driver issue since the distro is optimized for the hardware.
How cool, I always thought about having a video game emulator on a device. I don't know if it could be done with Raspberry PI.
You can create Retro gamebox using RasPi. Just for a few examples:
I have about a dozen of RasPi running in our household, working as connected speakers (Volumio), Pi-hole, Print server and Wordpress server.
Great thing about RasPi is that it is inexpensive (excluding maybe the high-end Rpi4) and I can be a bit more adventurous. After all, RasPi is created for young kids to learn computing. It got be quite durable in those clumsy small hands 
I just tried Fedora on my machine and just didn't want to open the tab to install.
Note: I formatted the pendrive with NTFS and not FAT32
Your machine seems to be most Linux unfriendly system I've ever seen.
I wonder if @Aravisian might have any other idea. I am completely out of idea at this point other than switching the system for older laptop or RaspberryPi.
Must be formatted in FAT32, not NTFS.
What good old money doesn't do right? Microsoft sucks a little samsung and samsung limits users not to use linux.
Okay, i think use Windows 10 and 11 only if no works..
You can easily reformat the pendrive to FAT32, which will work with both Windows and Linux. NTFS will just work with Windows.
Ahhh I swore NTFS was way better and worked on Linux. I will test OpenSuse in a moment with FAT32
Oops.. here is your biggest problem.
How come I did not picked it up 
Yes yes.. Sorry for the hesitation guys. 
You will be better served here:
https://forums.opensuse.org/forum.php
My ex was going on about openSuse (and Slackware), but I have no personal experience with it.
I also have no experience and am afraid of losing 1.5tb of files
You made a back up of your personal files before starting installation, no?
Well, my dears. I have bad news, I have tested Fedora (FAT32) and nothing has changed. He did not open the installer.
I prefer to accept defeat guys, thanks everyone.
Note: Samsung/Microsoft are the worst companies I've seen
I tried Kubuntu, Zorin OS Core, Fedora, openSuse and NOTHING.
