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Tried to dual boot W11 & Ubuntu & bricked my PC
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You removed Windows. Not sure why Ubuntu is slow, but that may be because of snaps.
The internet issue may also be just because of missing drivers.
Please test if it works on a live USB or SD (I guess, never used an SD Card) before.
And yes, Windows installer is notorious for removing Linux, so install Windows again, then inside of Windows use their shitty partition manager and shrink the big storage partition, then install Linux in there
Note that I dont recommend Ubuntu as they got pretty shitty. They theme the desktop environment GNOME a lot, and everybody hates their Snap package system. Instead I highly recommend Fedora, which is a less opinionated distro.
I also dont recommend dual booting with Windows, as you should never update Windows again, which is a security risk. The updater often removes the Linux bootloader and you need to unbreak that.
The bootloader thing doesn't happen anymore with UEFI I believe. Each os has its own boot partition now.
All windows can do is make itself the first boot option, which you'd have to reverse in your bios.
Mint is solid too
I will try another Disto if I can. I restored windows too. Are there other, safer methods to do this if I only have one SSD. Also, If I do reinstall how do I tell the installer specifically which partition to use
Shrink the main NTFS storage partition of Windows.
This will be empty space.
Install into empty space.
Never used Ubuntus installer but Fedoras installer should work fine. Just dont delete anything