haraldunlimited
July 30th, 2018, 11:09 PM
I just got a Lenovo Thinkpad E480 and it came with Windows 10 pre-installed. I've been trying Windows 10 for 15 minutes and I hated it so I want to remove it entirely, replacing it with Ubuntu.
Been booting Ubuntu 18.04 from a live USB and so far it runs amazingly well. Everything works out of the box (didn't try the fingerprint scanner but also don't care about the fingerprint scanner), I have some scaling issues on high resolution but so far they are manageable. So I'm confident that I'll be fine with Ubuntu as the only hard-installed OS.
I'm not sure though how to go about the installation. The Installer recognizes the Windows Boot Manager and shows (among others) the option "Erase disk and install Ubuntu". This seems to be the most relevant to single-booting Ubuntu. Is it safe though? Worried the Thinkpad might become unbootable because this process deletes something crucial for start-up or because I missed a setting in the BIOS I should have changed in advance. Googling, I read something about disabling Secure Boot in the BIOS for example, but this only seems to apply to those who try to dual-boot their Thinkpad. Then again, the Ubuntu install wants me to configure some kind of Secure Boot if I want to install proprietary drivers (which I do) but this Secure Boot seems different than the one in the Lenovo BIOS. So I'm a bit confused about that.
Any advice on what I should look out for or if I can just straight-forward use the standard installation options under "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" would be very helpful to me. I'm completely new to installing Linux on non-Mac machines. Thank you!
Been booting Ubuntu 18.04 from a live USB and so far it runs amazingly well. Everything works out of the box (didn't try the fingerprint scanner but also don't care about the fingerprint scanner), I have some scaling issues on high resolution but so far they are manageable. So I'm confident that I'll be fine with Ubuntu as the only hard-installed OS.
I'm not sure though how to go about the installation. The Installer recognizes the Windows Boot Manager and shows (among others) the option "Erase disk and install Ubuntu". This seems to be the most relevant to single-booting Ubuntu. Is it safe though? Worried the Thinkpad might become unbootable because this process deletes something crucial for start-up or because I missed a setting in the BIOS I should have changed in advance. Googling, I read something about disabling Secure Boot in the BIOS for example, but this only seems to apply to those who try to dual-boot their Thinkpad. Then again, the Ubuntu install wants me to configure some kind of Secure Boot if I want to install proprietary drivers (which I do) but this Secure Boot seems different than the one in the Lenovo BIOS. So I'm a bit confused about that.
Any advice on what I should look out for or if I can just straight-forward use the standard installation options under "Erase disk and install Ubuntu" would be very helpful to me. I'm completely new to installing Linux on non-Mac machines. Thank you!