Strange behavior with re-installed laptop - URGENT

[MR ZenWiz]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:23 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 08:10, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > Do I have to reinstall again or is there another way to recover from this?
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> Does it boot Windows OK?
>
It does.

> If so, can you use that to update the firmware?
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Apparently the firmware is up to date.

> You could try to boot from a Live USB and ``fsck`` the Xubuntu
> partition(s) from there.
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Did that - it seems to have resolved the problem, at least for now.

> If you do have to reinstall, I'd suggest:
> 1. Use 20.04

As soon as the .1 release comes out I'll see if I like it (probably
will - Xubuntu doesn't change much from LTS to LTS, except mainly
improvements).

> 2. Use separate /home and swap partitions
>
I shrank the /home partition by about 5GB and made that a swap space,
just for good measure.

Many thanks, Liam.  Very helpful.

Mark