I installed debian buster first, it seemed to install ok but would not recognize onboard NIC, so I plugged in a USB NIC and continued, all
looked normal during the install (minus the NIC) at first boot it
flashed an error after the intel screen which I missed and could not see again, but then it just booted to a command prompt, could that be a
video driver issue?
Possibly. I think there are a lot of assumptions here; installing debian doesn't tell the version, the type of install media (full install, minimal, netinst, etc), bios vs uefi, or what WM/DE you've selected. What GPU does
your nuc have? Mine simply has onboard intel but I think there are some with radeons built in nowadays.
Anyhow to be thorough I tried unbuntu as that distro is actually listed
on intels site for previous generation NUC's, for some reason that installed and boots? It works and I can make do, I would prefer debian
and I may try some of the bios tips I have found.
The crappy thing about Ubuntu, in my opinion, is that it does all the work
for you so you don't wind up having a better understanding of what is happening. :) The positive version of this conversation is that Ubuntu stable repos are much more up to date than Debian repos, which are "release when ready" and will only get security patches for the most part between major releases.
What version NUC are you on and did you by chance install debian?
I have arch running on a skull canyon. What issues are you hitting, a what distro
Skull canyon 8, I should clarify (I think?) but linux will run on any one of them. They are just little intel pcs and linux will run most if not all
aspects of that hardware.
And running arch, per my comment above :)
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