I was about to pick one of these laptops up late last year until I happened to stumble across that very bug report myself: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/+bug/1040557?comme... Everyone seems to have it working fine with UEFI disabled, and several people have noted the vendor or Samsung has provided a replacement in the cases where it was bricked.

At least in their darkest hours, Linux users can still put on a smile:

"[...] they changed the motherboard and it's working again now. I won't try to install Ubuntu again though. The whole process took about 2 weeks."