The first things I did was boot into Windows and flash the bios t the latest 1.3.4.
I then made a USB stick with usb-creator-gtk (on my other laptop) and installed Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.3 with the following partitions replacing the Windows partition:
/boot: 2GB
/ : 65GB
/home: 92GB
swap: 16GB (RAM is 16GB)
rest (~340GB) left unused to make an encrypted data partition with gnome-disks.
When booting up with the USB the it gets stuck at the Ubuntu Gnome logo. And once I was lucky to be able to install it it also kept getting stuck at the same place.
I turned off secure boot and UEFI. I tried combinations of these as well.
The weird thing is this doesn't happen with Ubuntu Gnome 17 (and Ubuntu server) even though I installed it with UEFI enabled. Also, the grub menu includes entries for the Windows Boot Manager and System Stratup but those weren't included when I installed 16.04.3
I haven't found anything that answers my question. I think it's a kernel problem because the Ubuntu server I installed (without eth network) has kernel version 4.4.0.
Regarding graphics, the laptop comes with an NVIDIA GTX 1050 card.
Solution (use nomodeset) provided in the comments by MichaelBay. Follow this during both the installation until you update the system and install the drivers.
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