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I’ll not quote anything to make it shorter, so please be careful while reading as what is the answer on what.
I’m not at at all a dragon I seem to be. 😉 I’ve no problem with ‘baking’ USBs — there’s no sane word for it except maybe simple ‘writing’.
It was easy with CD/DVDs … we had a X-Burner to ‘burn’ X. No ‘USB-Baker’ to ‘bake’ USBs. It doesn’t really matter.
I’ve also no problem with you not knowing certain things — you’re learning like all of us too — but, that fact makes it very hard to help you. It’s simply extremely complex matter and something can go wrong very quickly. There is a good reason why some IT magazine is writing a 10-page article on how to properly install it.
‘Broken by design OS’ is virtually every BSD or Linux that it comes in your hands since most of them use some workarounds to install on EFI/UEFI machines. Only exception Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros which didn’t replace Ubuntu installer and eventually IBM RHEL (Fedora).
I have over 20 USB-‘Bakers’ for a good reason — first you must insure that USB is ‘baked’ properly before you start playing with fire — YOU MUST insure that you GET those options! NOTHING in Linux world ‘just works’ — if it does, than you simply had luck and you should never rely on pure luck.
The crossed part that starts with: “As of a solution for you, there a few possibilities:” … I’m writing about trying to fix it with Windows 10 and you reply with: “No, that is not possible with Mint as it cannot detect eMMC …”
Windows 10 you can download from the MS website — the license IS BAKED in your hardware so, no prob on that one. Simply do what I proposed and see if it can detect your eMMC.
Nothing is wrong with Mint nor any other installer that can’t discover your eMMC and 99% for sure, nothing is wrong with your eMMC neither — the problem is, if you’re in the mixed mode, not every installer is able to detect it since, officially, there is no such thing as a ‘mixed-mode’ — it’s ‘hack’ or ‘accident’ but, against the standard way on how to do it.
* Windows has a very ‘aggressive installer’ which doesn’t respect what the user wants — in some cases very wellcome feature.