Yes, if you tell it what to do during the install.
I'd just like to clarify from your first Post.
Hi, I overwrote Windows 10 with Linux Ubuntu 16 from a bootable USB.
When you overwrote Windows, were you running Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows as a dual-boot, or did you blow it away when you installed Ubuntu from the stick, do you remember?
Reason I ask is your reference to the Grub Menu.
If you were dualbooting, you would have had a Grub Menu with Ubuntu on top, and a reference to Windows Boot Manager a couple of lines lower.
If however you replaced Windows with Ubuntu totally, telling the installer to overwrite the entire disk, you would not have had a Grub Menu by default, it is hidden unless we make it appear permanently (which we can do, it is handy for the Advanced Options).
The installer for Ubuntu. Linux Mint and a number of other Debian-based Distros is called Ubiquity, developed by Ubuntu.
When you are in Ubiquity and get the choice of how to install, you would choose the fill entire disk option, and the result after installation and reboot will be a pristine version of Ubuntu 16.04. Its codename is 'Xenial Xerus'.
You would then run your Updates and there will be a swag of them, as 16.04 is 3.5 years old.
Once everything is finalised, you
can upgrade to 18.04 from within your install, it will take quite some time.
Alternative is to download and burn a copy of 18.04 'Bionic Beaver', and install that, with only 18 months of updates to perform.
See what you think.
Wizard