I’ve been facing issues lately. A few weeks ago I kept having “lockups” where the keyboard and mouse would stop working. It turns out my crappy mouse was causing all USB ports to stop working. I noticed that the PC would still go to sleep and the clock was still working.
Yesterday I was having a weird issue with a site where I couldn’t download files. It worked on every other device I own so I decided to restart. After restart the PC would boot to a black screen. The actual monitor was still on just not displaying.
I already back up my home folder to a second drive automatically so after searching for an answer to this issue and finding nothing I just decided to switch to fedora and see what that’s all about.
It seems like it’s one thing after another lately and I just needed to use my PC. I guess a fresh install every once in awhile isn’t a bad thing.
My advice is: this isn’t Windows, so if you look at the logs you will probably find clues to what is wrong. With those clues you can find help online, either from blog articles or from Linux forums like this one.
I know reinstallation is the default in the Windows world, but you stand to learn a lot from trying to solve the issues you are facing.