Comment by pjmlp

Yeah, just last year I had several issues with a Gigabyte board that refused to boot Linux regardless of the UEFI incantation, paritions being used, or distribution, yet it had no problems booting the very same M.2 SSD if plugged via an external case.

Eventually it gets tiring, I still remember Yggdrasil, my first distro was Slackware 2.0, bundled on Linux Unleashed first edition in 1995.