I had a dual boot machine for a year or so when i first used linux. Never actually went into windows the whole time

I didn’t want to have spyware for an os.

As someone insecure in their masculinity I don’t know if u would use ladybird. Now if it was MANbird I would.

So tldr start with a dual boot machine

Umm correct if um wrong but cant you make a snapshot of ant file system

Ok to provide more detail After tue updatecthe login screen changed. It looked completely different.

When i typed in my password and hit enter it would go black and the right back to the login screen.

Incorrect password

Typing stuff did make the black appear. It would just fail everytime.

Which was ignored

Yeah i woyld have entered right the second time. Numlock was off and it is a simple pass. The best i can tell is kde issued a buggy update to their de. Thats why the logon screen looked different and why issueing an update comand fixed it but reset my desktop settings.

Hopping over to mint tomorrow

Ctrl+shift+f3 Then user name and sudo password

That changes the promt to username$.

Then i ran sudo pkcon update. Several people had this problem and all the others solutins uses comands I couldn’t understand but this one i did.

It worked*.

I can log in but my desktop settings are the default now. But atleast i lost no files.

I could not or maybe i could. It let me run a sudo pkcon update and that fixed it

Well i now thats not the problem i dont have that many files and the imstall is less the a month old.

Same thing happened to my windiws oc way back in 2002. Hdd crash wrecked its boot loader

Memdisk proc hd0 hd1 hd1gpt1 hdgpt2 hdgpt3

So new hdd time

Im using kde I did not even use my pc the last few days I came home it froze and when i rebooted i got this I do NOT have any duel boot

How do i get it to load the kernal