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Yes. If you can't access fastboot and the OS, you need to use the Emergence Download Mode (EDL) for you phone (volume down + power).
XDA forums has all the steps and guides to unbrick your device.
Download your firmware file (please check your SoC due to the different phone variants).
Download and compile the QDL tool with some more details about QDL here.
Enter EDL mode.
Flash your firmware as described by the first link in step 2.
Profit????
What happens if you press Power + volume down? That should take you to recovery mode, which has a menu entry to boot into the bootloader.
Also, what happens if you just press power?
I had the exact same issue on a different phone, but it had a Mediatek chip. For those, there is a tool "SP flash tool" that can flash the stock ROM even if the phone can't enter fastboot mode. Once it's unbricked, you can install something else again.
There seems to be a tool like that for the Zenfone too.
WARNING I have no experience with this tool and don't know whether the following link (1st Duckduckgo result for "zenfone flash tool") is reputable:
https://androidmtk.com/download-asus-zenfone-flash-tool
If the tool isn't available for Linux, you could try it from a Windows VM with USB passthrough.
Can you enter the bios?
is that a new install you can't access or an older one?
Im a noob, so please be patient:
do you mean the desktop's bios or the device's bios?
Incidentally, I just accessed twrp 3.7.0 I somehow installed in the device months ago. Is this the bios you mention?
I mean the devices bios.
After installing everything worked correctly, or you didn't use it till today and just realised it didn't work?
If you used the device for some time nad it just now started to give you problems, did you have any updates or have done or deleted anything?
I don't remember anymore, this happened 9 months ago. I remember trying to install lineage and following their instructions, but then lineage seems to be incompatible with my device. Then I, apparently, tried twrp and somehow installed it.
FWIW I don't care about the data, I just want to install a rom that works, preferably a non proprietary one.
ETA: On my desktop's terminal if I type 'adb devices' it returns: KC63JG60633VUN recovery. How far am I?
All you need to do then is to reinstall the system if you can access the bios, I have seen there is another comment that names you the steps needed so please reffer to it.
wait, does 'KC63JG60633VUN recovery' on my terminal mean I have accessed the bios?