@fairtradestu sadly, a lot of these have Linux blacklisted on the mobo. I had little luck booting Linux on my defunct Acer from school, only fringe distros like Devuan or Deepin were not banned, but it was enough to bootstrap something decent.

Tho the run of laptops in my school had such highly-binned Intel Celeron N4100s many Linux kernels couldn't boot. The hw defects around memory barriers made the kworkers crash in late boot stages, so I had to build my own Gentoo to set some sanity cflags.