I purchased a new laptop, windows 10 home, amd ryzen 7, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD.
I want to partition it with Ubuntu.
I downloaded ubuntu https://ubuntu.com/#download I downloaded rufus https://rufus-usb.en.uptodown.com/windows I followed the instructions https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-burn-an-iso-file-to-a-usb-drive-2619270, which is same as others
This was a success.
I changed BIOS to boot from USB first.
I restarted and chose option to trial Ubuntu My laptop started to read from the USB, as it lit up momentarily, then stopped working completely.
I tried again, this time chose to install Ubuntu, and had the same result. My USB drive light flashed a few times, then nothing happened.
I tried again, and let it wait, thinking it was processing, but nothing happened after 10min or so.
This is odd, as my old laptop, I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in this fashion and had no problems.
If anyone has any suggestions, I would gladly listen