i am in the process of moving all my data off my laptop, which is currently win11 (gag) so that i can format it to ubuntu and copy stuff back off.

windows has crashed once already, just copying files.

i cannot wait to be rid of this shit

@Viss

You could try a live boot of Finnix to save your files.

I would stay away from Ubuntu.

https://www.finnix.org/

Finnix

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