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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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New to linux, installed Ubuntu but have issues every restart. (piefed.social)

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As above switched to Linux and i am enjoying it i picked Ubuntu as TBH it was the first I came across. The last two times it has prompted me to update has caused a drama. First would only give me a black screen of text so I did a reinstall.

The latest one went fine it updated to 6.17.0-94 but i lost all networking no wifi By the looks of it the problem I have is i have an older device that has nvidia 580 graphics card. I have rolled back for now but questions are;

Is there a way to pre-emt this, as i feel now as soon as i restart it will jump back up and leave me without networking to resolve. its quite a faff trying to find out what to do on my mobile and typing it in the terminal.

Is it better to fix or try another distro?

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[–] tangeli@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

You can boot Linux from a USB flash drive if your main installation isn't working. That might be better than searching for solutions from your phone. And a bootable USB flash drive is helpful when you can't boot from the internal drive. I always have one around, just in case, though I don't use it very often.

Booting from USB flash drive is a bit slow. A USB attached hard drive or SSD will be much faster or, if your internal drive is big enough, you can partition it to hold two Linux installations. Then, when one isn't working you can switch to the other with just a reboot, as long as it's not the boot loader that's broken.