Just got finished rebuilding my main desktop after a chain reaction of bad stuff that started when I updated to kernel 4.13.0-26. I decided to switch back to xubuntu 16.04. Xfce is like an old, comfortable pair of jeans. It just works. Will probably upgrade again when 18.04 comes out.
@GNUDuffer
Ohh. I'm an arch user so I make backups for such reasons. I had so many bad updates that screwed my whole os that I stopped counting, but the last year really went well and I didn't got any bad updates.