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.
It was stock Ubuntu. Everything was working fine for a long time. The only thing I can think of is that I was trying to get rdp going last week so I could access my main PC from a thin client in my garage. Maybe I got “hacked”? Otherwise it could be some issue with the PC, a used hp business pc, nothing special. When I first tried to load the fedora image it did the same thing, other recovery images from medicat worked. Then later trying the fedora image worked. I also reseated ram and ssd, unplugging everything and trying different monitors, etc. before trying anything else.
Everything seems fine now, I just need to install all of my applications again.
Sounds like you may want to install them as flatpak and or distrobox to stop messing with the system like on atomic distros