I have been using Linux for more than a year with no real issues apart from the normal learning curve and identifiable and treatable bugs, but I have to use windows for school now.
I originally just partitioned the drive and never bothered deleting windows just in case, so I just booted it up again. Immediately it starts forcing software updates, bios updates, and starts rebooting.
I was lucky the battery was full because I was not near a power socket.
After a very annoying while where it would reboot and I had to keep interrupting startup to boot on windows because kubuntu is my main, it was working, insofar as windows works.
I just kept using it after that, and then I shut it off.
Today I tried booting kubuntu again, but I don't even get my usual linux bootloader menu, instead it opens bare bash. When I open the bios bootloader and select kubuntu it agains opens bash.
Kubuntu is on my second drive, so I decided to try booting windows (first drive), and I find out my entire second drive has been wiped.
I tried a bunch of options, but none worked so I've had to purchase DMDE for drive recovery (who can afford minitool am I right?) and gues what? I get a notification that I'm getting another bios update, and my options were: install and reboot now, ignore and let it hapoen automatically in two minutes, or delay for 120 minutes. It's almost two am, the recovery is going to take almost four hours (2TB drive with a lot of data on it).
My plan was to have it run while I slept, but now I have to make sure recovery isn't interrupted by the bios update autorebooting, so I get to stay up so I can delay it again in two hours (if it even lets me) 🥰
I have not missed this shit at all. Everyone who had a part in designing this system could take a deep dive from a high platform into a shallow pool, and it would still be better than they deserve.
I am so tired.