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I always run my laptop on windows 7, which was already pre-installed. I used UnetBootin to install xubuntu 18.04 alongside windows 7 without a usb/cd. I don't have a usb/cd at the moment. I installed xubuntu, used it for a good two hours, installed lots of stuff, personalized it etc. and suddenly my browser freezed and it resulted in a over-all system lag. I had to force restart it. When i booted in again, i noticed no files that i created - nor the programs i installed with sudo apt install are there anymore. It simply "factory reset" my whole ubuntu files and i don't think there's a way to recover them anymore, so is there a way to prevent deleting all files from xubuntu at reboot?

all windows files are perfectly ok.

Is there a way to prevent this? Please. Also, please keep in mind i am not a fluent linux user, i just wanted to test it out. And suddenly this happened and i think i lost all my hope.

Remigiusz Schoida
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Sorry to hear about that.

Sounds like unetbootin doesn't use persistence. I don't use unetbootin as it has been known to not play nice with Linux.

I like to keep things simple so you can try this:

Once you address your usb/cd drive issues you could try setting up a virtual machine (VM) and running ubuntu in that environment as opposed to what you were doing with unetbootin.

If you get the drive issues fixed try using ubuntu in a live setting for a while or install directly on bare metal for best results. There may be other solutions to your issue with users that are more familiar with unetbootin.

Xubuntu is a great distro and glad you liked it :)

Have fun