I forgot to mention the power consumption was very good, seemingly
better than windows 10. That's a big bonus.
On the website it said that the XFCE AHS release is not out yet. It
would probably work better on my device.
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mx
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Edit: Ken Original summary was "Overcoming fucking UEFI and Windows 10 to Install MXLinux 21.3 on a 2021 Asus Laptop 2nd SSD drive" - as per policy