I do, but that requires either successfully booting something else or pulling the drive. Manufacturers are making it incrementally harder to successfully boot something else. Pulling the drive is still an option, but it turned out that I didn't have the right NVME adapter and one wasn't available locally, and in any case, if you do that and still can't get it to boot, then you have to have a backup image of the drive or you're really SOL. If the device still boots Windows in any condition, I can still return it to the retailer as a plan Z.
I'm afraid I'm totally lost. Do you not just plug in a USB drive with a Linux ISO, hit the key combo for the boot menu, and boot off the USB? Maybe you need to disable secure boot in the BIOS/UEFI, but that's about it, no?
