My main notebook has conked out. Son in process of helping me see about recovery. Am on my old notebook. Found info to this account.

@zudn Didn't you just buy this notebook? Ubuntu?

@Big_Diggity Yup. Not so long ago.

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Dang! What happened? Just died?

@Big_Diggity Locked up, couldn't save anything, LibreOffice crashed. I tried restarting, got CLI with error messages. Best I recall (I was in a panic), something about memory. Son walked me through a fsck -y exercise, that only worked on about the fourth time through.

@zudn @Big_Diggity How old is the disk in it?

@jonyoder @Big_Diggity Two years max.

@zudn @Big_Diggity If you have a live boot USB or can get into the graphical OS, checking GSmartControl for the disk attributes might be a good idea. If you can get that far, any pink rows in the Attributes tab == disk replacement

@jonyoder @Big_Diggity Way over my head. Thank you for the suggestion, however.

I've not been happy with the Lenovo ThinkPad X1. Another reason, several of these spots:

My issue with the Lenovo's is that the fn and ctrl keys are reversed from most modern keyboards. I'm an emacs user of 40 some odd years and I use the control key a lot.