I'm surprised that Start9 caused you problems. It installed seamlessly on my Nuc. You'll definitely learn more with this approach though. If you haven't found these tutorials, I highly recommend them: nostr:nevent1qqsvqtc33qgu03k9avmnylk7xtzf3xt679d3wp3s07l5n8uphkmkrjqpzemhxue69uhhwmm59ehx7um5wgh8qctjw3uj7q3qtxwy7guqkrq6ngvtwft7zp70nekcknudagrvrryy2wxnz8ljk2xqxpqqqqqqzxf0r0k
It’s a brand new MSI Cubi NUC 1M. I suspect it may just be too new as it looks like the graphics may not be supported in the current installer. I had already been considering whether to build it manually anyway but wanted to have a look at StartOS. I’ll definitely check out those videos. I’ve been roughly basing the install so far on the RaspiBolt guides and changing to x86_64 instead of arm since I’m using a NUC instead of Raspberry Pi. https://raspibolt.org