There are two major hardware variants. Intel-only and NVidia
This has only been tested with the Intel-only variant
Enter the bios by repeatedly pressing F2 when the laptop turns on
These settings are needed both for booting the final install, and installer itself. Therefore, they must be done first.
- Click Restore Settings button a select BIOS Defaults, not to be confused with Factory Settings
- Disable Secure Boot (but keep UEFI Boot). Thankfully doing so is as easy as changing any other simple setting.
- Disable Intel hardware RAID and use AHCI instead. Intel doesn't seem to provide a working linux driver for this
Note that this device is supported by fwupd. To perform firmware upgrades just activate the service
services.fwupd.enable = true;
Then use fwupdmgr to perform updates.
Activate the service
services.fprintd.enable = true;