I asked how to safely go about replacing my linux mint partition a friend set up, and followed the answer given to me here: How do I replace the Linux Mint partition with Ubuntu without harming my Windows 10 partition?
Since trying Ubuntu without installing via bootable USB was working swimmingly I thought there would be no harm in replacing the mint partition using the helpful answer mentioned previously. Sadly it seems the Ubuntu partition is pretty much unusable.
The moment I log in to Ubuntu it simply stops after about a minute. No crashes, errors, or black screens. It just refuses to take input of any kind. Luckily the Windows 10 partition is fine and I can easily boot into either via grub2.
I am not sure what could have happened other than the partition screen displayed during install that is shown in the helpful answer was different than mine. Mine had more than 4 extra partitions compared to his, one labeled efi. In retrospect I should have questioned that more.
My laptop
Asus VivoBook Pro 17,
1TB hard drive and 256GB SSD,
i7-8550U mobile processor,
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card
I am not sure what other info would be useful but I'll provide anything I can.
