I asked how to safely go about replacing my linux mint partition a friend set up, and followed the answer given to me here: How do I replace the Linux Mint partition with Ubuntu without harming my Windows 10 partition?
Since trying Ubuntu without installing via bootable USB was working swimmingly I thought there would be no harm in replacing the mint partition using the helpful answer mentioned previously. Sadly it seems the Ubuntu partition is pretty much unusable.
The moment I log in to Ubuntu it simply stops after about a minute. No crashes, errors, or black screens. It just refuses to take input of any kind. Luckily the Windows 10 partition is fine and I can easily boot into either via grub2.
I am not sure what could have happened other than the partition screen displayed during install that is shown in the helpful answer was different than mine. Mine had more than 4 extra partitions compared to his, one labeled efi. In retrospect I should have questioned that more.
My laptop
Asus VivoBook Pro 17,
1TB hard drive and 256GB SSD,
i7-8550U mobile processor,
16GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card
I am not sure what other info would be useful but I'll provide anything I can.
EDIT:
I am a bit more confused than before. After numerous tries just restarting my laptop to try suggestions without it freezing before I could even get through the "Welcome to Ubuntu" setup I chose not to send error info instead of the default on my last restart.
For some reason that stopped the freezing until I allowed some downloaded updates to install and chose to restart, which immediately froze Ubuntu up to where I needed force shutdown my laptop. It seems that whenever I try to normally shutdown or restart Ubuntu it freezes now.
The following is output from ls -al /var/crash:
ls -al /var/crash
total 8
drwxrwsrwt 2 root whoopsie 4096 Jul 24 22:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Jul 24 22:14 ..
