I discovered Neon about a month ago and installed the User Edition, which I love. I've also added Developer Stable and Developer Unstable just to play with. All installed from a USB stick with no problems.

New computer arrived last week and the first thing I tried to do was install User Edition. Live Session starts from the USB stick, appears to be starting normally but the desktop doesn't show. Just get a black screen with the cursor in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. Totally unresponsive. Needs a reset to get out of it.

Developer Stable and Unstable give the same results.

Computer has an Asus Mobo (ROG Maximus X Hero), and a GeForce GTX 1050 video card

Linux Mint KDE is presently working on this machine. Video was a little flaky until I put in the proprietary nvidia drivers.

The Asus mobo has buit-in Realtek B822 wifi which was not found! A bit of searching gave me a rtl8822befw.bin driver. Having installed it, wifi is working well.

Would sure appreciate some advice on getting KDE Neon installed. I do like this distro.

There is your problem, NVIDA GPU. Neon doesn't work well with NVIDA graphic cards. You can try Manjaro non-free edition, and that may work a little better, but even then you won't get the all the benefit of the GeForce GTX 1050 video card.

I use the 600 and 700 series NVIDIA graphics cards with Neon.

Will Neon install if you don't use the live session, but go straight to installation? If so, you can use the terminal to install the proprietary drivers, which give good graphics performance.

To view devices and available drivers

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sudo apt update
ubuntu-drivers devices

then pick which driver you want and use

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sudo apt install (name of driver here without parenthesis)

With my cards I found that 384 and 387 series are not very stable on all of my computers, but there is a NVIDIA graphics PPA that allows the installation of the 390 series which works great for me. https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers ... ubuntu/ppa

@fredhoud - I've always found Intel is pretty trouble-free, nvidia definitely workable. Radeon not so much success so I stay away from them.
Used Manjaro for a year or two. Very nice. Enjoyed it a lot, but I keep going back to Debian based distros. Mint is sweet but I tend toward the more cutting-edge of things. That plus the fact that Neon just installs the basics. Every other KDE I've tried results in me spending a day or two un-installing all the stuff I never use.

@mackay - that is exactly what I was looking for! Hadn't noticed an "install now" but then, I wasn't looking for it.
I've been using nvidia-384 in Mint so will try that to start. And will definitely look into that nvidia ppa.
Going to be an interesting weekend

Mint on one machine, Neon on the other. Best of both worlds from my point of view.

and a tagline shamelessly stolen from another forum . . . " If it ain't broken it's because it needs more tweaking "

hahaha . . . there's always a got'cha.
No option to install Neon from boot. You have to get to the desktop before you can install. I can't get to the desktop!
And I can't figure out how to break out of the Live environment when it starts loading the desktop. At least that way I'd be at a command prompt and might be able to do something.
Back to the drawingboard.

On an installed system, so possibly with a live USB stick too, you can switch to terminal at any time by pressing Ctl-Alt-F2. That might be worth a try. Otherwise you might need to install Kubuntu 16.04 and then add KDE Neon PPA's.

I'll give the Ctl-Alt-F2 thing a try. I do use it on installed systems on occasion just never thought to try it while loading a Live session.
Kubuntu might be an option but one of the reasons I really like Neon is that it only installs basic KDE. I don't have to spend time after the install removing all of the stuff I'll never use. And it's quicker than Kubuntu, maybe for that very reason?

Ok, yes Ctl-Alt-F2 works but I can't seem to run the install program from the command line.
Enough! I'll either have to install maybe the xfce version of ubuntu and use the Neon repos, or more likely just wait for the next iteration of Neon and hope it works.
Thank you for your help. Marking this Solved . . . such as it is.