A couple months ago I installed Cinnamon Linux.
So today my HP elitebook stopped working. it's as if it's out of battery and it doesn't even know what wall electricity is.
Discussion
I've never had a computer just become a complete unresponsive brick.
Usually the screen flickers or there's a hum or a click when it's plugged in.
it probably is the power circuit by the sound of it
if you can remove the battery, sometimes these things just right themselves after being completely disconnected from power, the controller circuit may have had a brain fart, i've had that happen with devices
cinnamon is not a distro it's a desktop, same as there is no such thing as gnome linux, although there is a debian or ubuntu based gnome, or used to be, i don't think it exists anymore though