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.
I recall these times. As experience grows, one needs to do it less and less often :)
Also, if your filesystem is Btrfs (which is usually a great choice), check out Snapper. With it, when an update goes wrong, you can often revert your system to a previous state.
On Fedora, it doesn’t come by default, so you’ll have to install it. I don’t use Fedora, but this guide looks like a decent introduction: https://dustymabe.com/2025/01/07/fedora-btrfs-snapper-the-fedora-41-edition/ Or for something shorter: https://www.andotech.net/installing-snapper-on-fedora-a-comprehensive-guide/
For its usage, this tutorial from openSUSE should be quite transferrable: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_Tutorial