That's funny. Randomly delete some system files and the boot
partition
and ask a new user to fix it. Good luck. Almost always, even for not
new users, any serious windows problem is solved by reinstalling the system.
This is demonstrably not true, but also not relevant and I have no interest in getting
bogged down arguing about it.
I have installed Fedora on a very wide variety of laptops and almost
never had any issues. The only serious issues were an unsupported wifi
card and a BIOS that absolutely insisted on booting windows.
Okay...good for you? I don't see how this helps my situation, not why you seem to have
bought it up as if to...deny what I've already observed in my own case?
Hopefully the lesson is that installing over an existing install is
going to cause some problems with that original install.
Yes, although I'm starting to see some wider lessons about the nature of Linux itself
and the discussions around it. But for now I want to focus on fixing my current problem.
Since you've already solved all the problems once, won't it
be easy to
redo that? Maybe try asking in here for help, since I can't imagine
what solutions you found and I wouldn't be surprised that random
"solutions" you find online would be causing you even more problems.
No, a lot of those fixes I frankly dont remember now, and in several cases, I'm not
even sure what I did that actually solved the problem.
And the discussion here so far is very discouraging in terms of getting any productive
advice. I'm trying as hard as I am able to provide as much detail as I can, and keep
up, and everyone seems largely intent on lording as much terminology as they can over me
to gloat at my inability to translate it to meaningful actions, quibbling over side
points, or now, seemingly denying there's a problem in the first place.
Case in point being you own choice to ignore my request to clarify the scatter-shot of
previously mentioned commands, in favor of going on a tangent about how "well, all
my laptops work", as if all you're really interested in is invalidating me for
asking in the first place.
Frankly, it's offputting and more than a little offensive.