I bought this laptop which the store claimed had ALinux. Instead it has stripped down Linpus Linux Lite with about two commands - for how to read copyright claims, one of them from 1989.
The BIOS has no Legacy option, so the computer always refuses to load from USB (there was no internal optical drive) and goes to hard drive and loads Linpus.
I bought external optical drive for the Resource DVD Acer put in and which seems to have full Linpus. But no Legacy, so the laptop boots Linpus no matter that I put the optical drive and USB before hard-drive in booting order. So to buy an install DVD for Windows etc wouldn't work.
When I press F12 during booting, only hard-drive can be selected as booting option. Not USB and not the DVD.
'Update BIOS' I have been told, but in these circumstances, frankly how?
It seems that Acer has taken eco-friendly energy saving a bit too far to produce a laptop that can't be used at all.
If somebody can point a path forward, I would be grateful because I am at my wits end.
I have been using Acer computers for 25 years and have been mostly very satisfied. But this time its pure horror.