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I am a novice when it comes to computers but the new motherboards don't have a "bios", they use "uefi". These new boards are set to load only windows. I may be wrong about this but I know a new laptop my son had built would ONLY run windows.
Linux supports UEFI just fine.

Where you will run into issues is with DRM and TCP (trusted computing) which require a signed kernel. Even then, there will be specific Linux distros that provide that - probably RedHat
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