(05-04-2018, 07:20 AM)pauloz link Wrote: What does Xubuntu have that LL doesn't have?
UEFI support. It appears your machine is one of those which lack the CSM or Legacy BIOS support
Jerry and the LL team have taken the decision that they won't be including UEFI support in LL - made clear here.
It is however possible to install LL 3.x (and probably 4.x) on a UEFI only system - I followed (more or less) m654321's tutorial and succeeded; that machine has been happily running LL since 3.6 and I was able to do the 3.8 upgrade without any issue. I would caution though that I have been in IT a long time and have a lot of history with installing OSes (both proprietary and open source) on a wide variety of hardware so while it wasn't particularly hard for me to use the information in that thread, taking this approach is definitely not for the faint hearted, the inexperienced, or those who depend on what they currently have installed, without great care and lots of known good backups.
Regarding your query about installing to SD card: if the machine can boot off the SD card you should be able to install a UEFI supporting Linux distro to the SD card. This will not be much different than if you were to use a USB stick as the install media. I would suggest though that most SD cards suck at write performance (many have reasonable read performance) and you will be well advised to select good quality media as SD cards (and USB sticks) can go bad all too easily >
I now only buy brand name SD cards and USB sticks from reputable local sellers, and I personally only select media with performance specifications listed on the packaging for this type of use - Sandisk and Lexar are brands I've had success with, particularly media intended for use with cameras where write speed and reliability is important.While Xubuntu isn't as as nice as LL IMO, if you decide to try the install to an SD card it should work ok (and it has been fine on my Lenovo 32bit UEFI netbook). Once you're comfortable with whatever Linux you can install to SD, you can then later do another install to the eMMC flash storage which will perform a lot better than any SD card.