dade wrote:It seems there's a bug in the mainline kernel, and a problem with the firmware. Once your installer medium is marked as trustworthy in your efi bios security settings, try to boot your installer medium (64 bit, you don't need to switch to 32 bit) with acpi=off or acpi=noirq and install your linux distro. When your installation was successful, reboot and install the grsecurity / grsec kernel and use that instead of the regular kernel. I wrote a little howto here: https://medium.com/@dade/how-to-linux-acer-swift-3-sf314-51-59rf-skylake-944ae5a3b822#.dshr223hm
With latest bios from acer, we need not boot with acpi=off (if using uefi). Also, I can't figure out how to install the grsec kernel. Tried following the debian tutorial linked in your article, but that's one heck of a complicated process.