Because Windows 10 is the latest official supported version, I managed a Windows 11 version. But in preparation for my mothers pc with Windows 10 for the occasional bigger screen and printjob I decided to test both on the Zbook. Mostly my mother uses her iPad and sometimes a bigger screen comes in handy. Investing in a new Windows pc would be overkill.

Ubuntu installed flawless on the Zbook, but the surprise was after installing: no automatic booting. The rEFInd Boot Manager by Roderick W. Smith – https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/index.html – came to the rescue; installing rEFInd and setting Ubuntu as first made it automatically boot. Then came shutting down in the docking station de Zbook usually resides: after shutting down the Zbook powered on again!

Time to try Linux Mint and guess what: same issues. Workaround for now is

efibootmgr -n 0004

Being automatically executed by cron after booting, entry 4 is Linux Mint.

Powering on after shutting down is resolved with installing laptop-mode-tools as advised on https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=199810. For now I use the Zbook with Linux Mint with the main reason that Firefox is installed as a system package, not as a snap.

Another difference is the size of the ISO’s:

• 2,8 GB for the linuxmint-22.1-cinnamon-64bit iso
• 6 GB for the ubuntu-24.04.2-desktop-amd64 iso