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You are right, it doesn't happen with any other O/S except iOS where you have to pay people/Apple to fix it (or reset the OS) or Windows where the stock response is "reinstall the O/S"
How valuable is the data on your laptop? Did you have it backed up? If so, stop worrying and just take the Windows approach. If not... Find someone local to you who is able to fix it (good luck with that...)
As for the rest - you come over as someone who expects someone else to fix your shit for free with no information other than "waaaa it's stopped working"
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Fwiw, based on your brief description of symptoms, I would say your boot device file system is broken somehow. To fix you need to mount it on another booted OS and fsck it (however if it mounts, copy valuable data off onto other media, then fsck it) . How to do that is left to your powers of Google. Not warranting my response in any way.
Best of luck.
You seem very fixed in your opinion that I'm some sort of crybaby. You must remember that there are people that have less knowledge than you have. I installed Linux because of people here suggesting it, with exactly the amount of knowledge you would have if you never bothered with operating systems before, so, none.
There have been problems with it. First I had to fix the system staying black after waking up from sleep. Then the webcam stopped working. Now it doesn't even boot anymore.
Actually, not at all. I looked for paid support options as well, but didn't find any that looked reputable.
Not extremely, however it's extremely surprising that you would suggest me to use Windows. I'm as unfamiliar with it as Linux.
Look at my original question. I'm literally trying to find out information like the one you posted in this guide. Thank you for offering that, but there really was no need to be condescending about me together with it, accusing me of being lazy. I tried to figure it out, but I just have no knowledge to even search effectively.
Thanks but that was the problem, I'm travelling and don't know where to get another OS to boot to from.