Note: I'm a newb and have no even remote idea what causes the problem, so I will be rather verbose and describe everything that happened.
I use an ASUS X550V laptop (Intel Core i7-6700HQ CPU, 8 gig RAM, nvidia 950m dedicated GPU). This laptop has Windows 10 on it (was NOT preinstalled) and I want to install linux as a second OS on it.
I have never installed Linux on this particular laptop before.
I originally downloaded Linux Mint 18.1 (bear with me, this IS an Ubuntu problem too) and used Rufus to burn a bootable USB.
The installation menu did not allow for direct installing, only starting a live session and moving from there. Live session did not boot, the process got stuck on the linux mint logo.
The installation menu did however offer to use "compatibility mode", then the OS booted and I successfully installed, however when booting the already installed OS, the same problem appeared (stuck on logo). I could sometimes weasel through recovery mode to boot successfully and edited grub to not include the splash screen.
Then it seemed to work fine, but it only sometimes booted into MDM, most of the time I got a CLI, and if I did "startx", it got stuck and did nothing.
I started experimenting, reinstalling several times, same issues.
I booted into Windows and downloaded Kubuntu 16.04.2, burned to USB via Rufus. The only option was to start a live session (not even compatibility mode was offered), the same issue happened (stuck on logo).
I went back to Windows and disabled fast startup (later on I used ESC to get rid of the logo and see the text and it moaned about WIndows not being shut down, but it was not the line it got stuck on) and checked that secure boot is disabled.
I also figured the USB might be the issue so I got some DVDs and burned Linux Mint onto a DVD.
Same thing happened. Tried Kubuntu again (with fast startup disabled), still got stuck (made screenshots of the text, will post them after the post).
I had a xubuntu 16.04.1 ISO on Windows (one that I successfully installed on another Asus laptop before, an older one which I sold to a friend since then), I burned that to USB too.
Here now I had a direct install option, it seemed to go through, but I stopped the install to continue troubleshooting. I also tried live booting xubuntu and the same thing happened as before. Afterwards I tried to do the direct install again and this time it didn't work either (with the same issue).
The only thing I still have in mind, which I haven't done yet is to use a distro NOT from the Debian/Ubuntu family (say Manjaro), but nontheless I'd like to either install Linux Mint or Kubuntu, so my issue still stands.
Screenshots:
EDIT: Manjaro doesn't work either. Different text though.
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