Hi, Here's a cookbook of tips to setup a Aspire One Cloudbook 14 with a minimal (but usable for your parents) Ubuntu. Setup the BIOS Press F2 when the Acer logo appears, and then change the EFI system to legacy. Reboot and then press F12 when the logo appears (to choose the installing media). Installation. I have selected a Lubuntu 18.04 installation but it's not a critical choice. More on this onwards. When prompted, specify the following options for the partitions: discard (as the Cloudbook 14 has a eMMC drive) and noatime . When prompted, install nothing but "OpenSSH Server" (as it won't be a standard desktop) After-install setup Update the dependencies with apt update && apt upgrade . In other linux machine, download and compile a recent kernel (currently 5.10.3): make clean menuconfig; make -j $(nproc); make bindeb-pkg # as we're going to scp the generated kernel to the aspire1 In the parent directory there'll be a " linux-image-5.10.3*....