
Make sure it's UEFI enabled (GPT formatted USB). You can do this from the pre-installed WIndows 10. UNetBootin (diskimage mode) or Rufus work great. Make a bootable USB disk or hard drive from your downloaded copy of the Linux Mint or Ubuntu ISO file. Make sure your BIOS is at the latest version (I lost time by not doing this right away, previous versions had defects making it even more difficult. using Macrium Reflect Free using the pre-installed Windows 10 First, and highly recommended: take an image backup of your EFI partition e.g. Many solutions listed like re-formatting the disk in MBR (versus GPT), moving to BIOS legacy mode etc. Despite being an ex-HP employee and experienced in Linux, it took me more than a half day to figure it out. I purchased a Z2 mini G4 and also struggled to install Ubuntu 18.x and/or Linux Mint 19.x.
