I am a brand new user of the Linux-based OS and I would really like to learn it, except I can't even get in the damn thing!!  I have created a LiveUSB using Rufus as per the instructions on the Ubuntu site.  I am using Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.  I have a modern ASUS motherboard with a Z170 chipset, so no issues booting from any USB device.  My USB flash drive is a 16GB Kingston Data Traveller G4 USB 3.0.  I also have an nVidia GeForce 970 GTX graphics card jnside my computer and outputting via DVI, if this has any relevance to my problem.    In Rufus, I selected the MBR option for use with UEFI and a FAT32 filesystem.    When I boot the USB device I get the menu to Try Ubuntu etc, with NO scrambled text like what many people have had.  But when I select Try or Install Ubuntu, I get a black screen with lots of garbled characters and nothing happens.  I've tried lots of different Linux-based USB and CD formats, but I always get this far and that's it.  It really is frustrating as I want to try and move away from Windows and learn something new.  Could this be a graphics card problem do you think?  I have also tried disabling Fast Boot and Secure Boot etc but no difference.
This is the third time I've tried to install Ubuntu Server 14.04.03 64-bit on the same laptop, and each time it caused different problems.  Each time I wrote the same iso image to a USB flash drive by using a different application and OS.   Universal USB Installer (pendrivelinux.com) from Windows WinImage writer from Windows built-in image writer from Linux Mint 17.2    The iso image is the same in all three cases, the USB flash drive is the same, and the laptop is the same. However each time the installation of Ubuntu gave me different installation options. For example, the last time I installed Ubuntu, it didn't show all the packages to choose while installing (Basic Ubuntu server, etc.).
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