Hello,

I hope this to be the correct place for the following theme.

As it is with Linux' inability to get on with that stupid INTEL RST-stuff for nearly ten years now, with seemingly nobody caring, I can no longer tinker about with Linux, as I have been doing for weeks now, instead of getting things done with my computer. Despite all liking for Linux with its underlying conception & endeavours - & after years of using it - seems I'm compelled to abandon it & go back to Windows slowly but surely. All the more woeful as there seem to be drivers in Linux capable to cope with Intel RST (see below).

Studying hundreds of websites since, downloading & testing tens of Linux-distros (incl. Ubuntu, Debian, Endless-OS), each rumoured as the one being capable of handling Intel RST, yet ended up in no avail at all.

After acting the fool / putting on the barmy stick some days ago as my last try yet, buying an M.2 SATA III-SSD and installing it besides the M.2 NvME-drive already in place on my Clevo L140CU-machine (the latter just like that ever-increasing number of other machines only permitting Intel-RST as SATA-mode & forbidding AHCI, I still have one question left:

Is there anybody out there with a plausible explanation why on the one hand

- Linux completely refuses to get installed on machines with Intel-RST inevitably switched on

- while at the same time in Live-mode (unlike the NVMie-drive) being able to see and address the abovementioned SATA-drive without any difficulties - exactly as happens in Windows too?

Up to now, I wouldn't have expected stuff like that from Linux.

Cheers,

Yogi