I tried every single* deb based distro on a Samsung laptop from 2010. Some installed but would freeze with error mid boot, some deb based refused to install and gave error upfront. I tried fedora and opensuse and they acknowledge the error and moved on.
Whatever hardware or bios bug or error handling problem tripped up the system , it was was prevrlant through all of the Debian Branch.
And No it wasn't secure boot. That was disabled.
Yeah, it was some BIOS bug or hardware error that halted Debs, but RPM based would show that it worked around the issue and continued. As a Debian branch whatever was missing in main was probably missing throughout all the derivatives.