Linux Mint on ACER Aspire ES 15, ES1-533-C2YP (+ boot and freeze fix) - Tutorial

It took me few weeks to get it done. Now, I will leave it here for me and other people that might be interested in.

Tested with Linux Mint 18.3, Sylvia, Cinnamon.

1. Create Linux ISO image on USB with Rufus. Choose default options. Don't change anything.

2. Set BIOS:

   Main (tab)
   Network Boot: Disabled
   F12 Boot Menu: Disabled
   Wake on LAN: Disabled
   Touchpad: Advanced
   Lid Open Resume: Enabled
   D2D Recovery: Enabled
   GPT Partition Recovery: None
   Clear GPT Partition: None
   GPT Partition Record: No Record

   Security
   Supervisor Password is: Set (if not set, set it, you will change that later...)
   User Password is: Clear
   HDD Password is: Frozen
   Password on Boot: Disabled
   Secure Boot Mode: Standard
   Current TPM (TCM) State: Installed
   Change TPM (TCM) State: Enabled

   Boot
   Boot Mode: UEFI
   Secure Boot: Disabled

   Boot priority order:
   ATAPI CDROM: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GUE1N
   HDD: KINGSTON RBU-SC152S37128GG3
   USB CDROM:
   USB FDD:
   USB HDD:
   Network Boot-IPv4:
   Network Boot-IPv6:

   Save BIOS settings and exit (F10, Right arrow, Enter).

3. Plug in USB and reboot system. If you done everything correctly, you should see linux booting.

4. When it boots and you see Linux Live (some distro name) desktop, then open terminal Ctrl + Alt + T, and confirm command ubiquity -b to run installation manually, but bypassing boot installer/loader which causes system freeze.

5. I installed linux without internet connection and minimal addon or packages or features. With erase disk option. When linux is installed then click Continue testing (don't reboot, yet).

6. Then do next steps in Terminal:

   sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
   sudo mkdir /mnt/boot/efi (if exists, ignore it, go to next step)
   sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/efi
   for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done

   sudo modprobe efivars
   sudo apt-get install --reinstall grub-efi-amd64
   sudo grub-install --no-nvram --root-directory=/mnt

7. Change root to /mnt

   sudo chroot /mnt
   sudo update-grub

   cd /boot/efi/EFI
   sudo cp -R ubuntu/* BOOT/
   cd BOOT
   sudo cp grubx64.efi bootx64.efi

8. Reboot the system and go to BIOS (F2).

Change BIOS settings: Security (tab) > Set Supervisor Password to empty password or no password. In order to change password, type old password and for new password don't write anything and just Press Enter 2X (twice, for empty password I mean, no password). Save and exit BIOS. Remove USB if you didn't yet. Reboot the system.

DONE!