Kalcifer, 5 months ago

Thank you for the breakdown.

You are very welcome! 😊

I’m now dedicated Ubuntu

A very fair decision! Dual booting can be a huge pain, and, for the average user, it really isn’t all that necessary anymore – Linux has come a very long way!

My problem turned out to be something with the BIOS. I don’t know if a switch got flipped somewhere along the way or what, but when I reset the BIOS to factory default settings in the boot menu I no longer had issues with boot looping and a CPU I could fry an egg on.

Interesting. I’m curious what the setting was. But, I’m glad that it worked out for you in the end!

I do believe that GRUB was initially installed on sda2 and not sda

I refer back to my previous comment – sda2 refers to a partition on the drive named sda. You could have a drive sda, sdb, sdc, etc. If one was given some partition sdc3 that means it is partition 3 on drive sdc. Everything gets installed into a partition on a drive.

Windows was just taking precidence over grubx64.efi upon startup

This can certainly happen – especially if Windows is installed after Linux. I woud refer you to this answer to fix it.

less a few graphical funnies with some larger proprietary software I use.

Yeah, I’m not too surprised about that (depending on the speicfic graphical issues that you are referring to, mind you) – especially if you are using Wine. If you don’t mind me asking, what software are you wanting/needing to use?

Funny enough, I tried to do a clean install of Debian with KDE on my system and I went back to having boot issues, mainly where it would just open to GRUB CL and I couldn’t get it to initialize Debian, when I was certain it was a good install.

Hm, this is strange. I would err on the side of a layer 8 error, but there could certainly be some other fuckery afoot.

So I’m just going to stick to Ubuntu for a good while and learn it.

There’s no problem with that! Ubuntu was the first distro that I used, as well, when I first got into Linux. Granted, I didn’t stick with Ubuntu for long, cause I got mildly annoyed with how it worked.

Once I feel very confident in filesystem maintenance, command line navigation, snap/flatpak/.deb/whatever, all the major things, I’ll start shopping around for another distro again.

Sounds like a solid plan! When you do decide to move on from Ubuntu, I’d recommend Arch LInux 😜