Yeah, you’ll definitely want to make sure that computer is isolated. It doesn’t sound like it’s currently on a VLAN. The real danger isn’t just someone messing up that one machine, once they’re in, they’re behind your firewall and can potentially access anything else on your network. Smart home devices are often the next targets, things like light bulbs, security cameras, and especially Windows computers, which are usually easy to compromise if they’re on the same network.

You might be wondering, “How likely is that?” Honestly, very likely. Back when my website was online, it would get hit by hackers, mostly script kiddies, several times an hour.

Do you at least have it on a VLAN?

I find they run even faster with Glorious Eggroll fork of proton

I’m more surprised that Manjaro is so low.

And now my instance is shutting down 🤡

Have you even tried the web UI?

Wow, good job tracking that down

If his drive is failing, and has bad sectors, windows will automatically repair damaged system files on boot. Also sounds like he’s having an issue with hibernation with the window server not starting back up after suspension.

Okay, assuming you’re being honest, it sounds like a hardware issue. Either your RAM is corrupting, or your hard drive is prone to errors. The good news is that you have options to daily drive Linux without ending up in a situation where you have to reinstall everything from scratch.

Like I mentioned earlier, you absolutely need to be making snapshots. I’m currently running Manjiro, and I’ve completely borked my system like 10 times already. But when I set up my system, I made sure my main partition was BTRFS, which has allowed me to roll back easily through both the UI and in grub rescue mode.

I would also recommend that if you are going to continue to dual boot windows, make sure they’re on two separate physical drives. And don’t share stuff like your steam library, because windows likes to screw shit up, and steam will throw a fit if you make it read an NTFS drive on Linux.

Just don’t give up, keep posting questions, and maybe even come back and post stuff like specific crash reports and system info so we can help you better. :)

It’s 2025, if you’ve got the space to dual boot, you’ve got space for snapshots. There’s no reason not to set them up. Btrfs, ZFS, LVM, pick your poison. Disk is cheap, your time isn’t.

And if “simple stuff” is breaking your system, that tells me three things:

1. You’re still using apt-get instead of apt

2. You’re ignoring dependency warnings

3. You’re probably not fully understanding the commands you’re running — so RTFM

So yeah, I will be telling you to use Mint, with at LEAST daily snapshots.

The way I see it, $HOME is for things I made. So I use ~/bin for my scripts

Wow, so my decision to switch my machines over to Linux by win10 EOL really isn’t overkill.

I’m out of the loop here