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New to linux, installed Ubuntu but have issues every restart.
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You can boot Linux from a USB flash drive if your main installation isn't working. That might be better than searching for solutions from your phone. And a bootable USB flash drive is helpful when you can't boot from the internal drive. I always have one around, just in case, though I don't use it very often.
Booting from USB flash drive is a bit slow. A USB attached hard drive or SSD will be much faster or, if your internal drive is big enough, you can partition it to hold two Linux installations. Then, when one isn't working you can switch to the other with just a reboot, as long as it's not the boot loader that's broken.