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Hey mate,

I can't speak for the other linux distro's as I've only ever used Kali, nor have I ever used a live USB, only native installs. But I'll try my best to help.

Kali itself is designed...

To start the GUI from command line, type "service gdm3 start".

To remove the splash screen from grub, you need to remove or rename the the grub picture file. I think it is stored in ...

I've never had this sort of problem, so I'm going in blind. Maybe try logging in to single user mode and updating Kali to see if that will solve your problem.
Do you have any spare external...

The default Kali 64bit ISO comes with most packages but not all (I think it's the kali-linux-full package). If you want to install all of the base Kali tools, open a terminal and type "apt-get update...

Great, I hope it works for you.
If you haven't ever updated a BIOS before, make sure you read up on how to do it correctly and take the whole process nice and slow. Read and re-read the instructions...

I think it's just that Lenovo's support for Linux is very little across the board and it comes down to the distro itself having to overcome some of their incompatibilities.
I was told by the people...

Hey mate,

You may need to just update your BIOS to the latest version. I've used 3 different Thinkpad models over the past few years and all of them have had trouble booting into various Linux...

Yeah, it should work fine as long as your laptop can boot from USB.
If you just copy the Kali iso to the SSD using one of the various bootable USB creators it will run like
a liveCD.
If you...

Rebuild your font cache

fc-cache -f

Restart or restart gnome

You just need to rebuild your font cache

fc-cache -f

Then restart or reload gnome (alt+f2 then r as the command).