No, it was the secure boot setting. Almost everything worked well enough with it off. However, not well enough for me not to go back to windows. Oh well, maybe in another 10 years.

Maybe I wouldn't have had any problems if I tried a more stable distro like Debian. I guess it all depends on what you want to use your PC for and if you like to tinker.

I have installed zorin on another pc and it worked okay, but I wanted to try kde for the customization as well. I will probably try fedora kionite next and if that doesn't work i don't know.

I just found out that UBO fixed it, but who knows how long that will last.

Yeah I get that but they are unwilling to make the effort.

That makes sense. I guess my family will have to keep blocking the annoying youtube popup with ubo.