I bought a cheap laptop from china: Ezbook 3S.
To boot Xubuntu a bit of trickery has to be done on the iso image.
Official IsoRespin instructions.
Download isorespin.sh
cd ~/Downloads/
chmod +x isorespin.sh
# Official dependency list
#sudo apt -y install bc curl losetup ip isoinfo mkdosfs mksquashfs rsync
#sudo apt -y install unsquashfs unzip wget xargs xorriso
sudo apt -y install xorriso
# Respin the iso with apollo support
./isorespin.sh -i /home/zap/Downloads/xubuntu-17.10.1-desktop-amd64.iso --apolloWrote the image using Rufus in iso mode.