Just rebooted, I really doubt someone hasn’t posted it there already lol
this didn’t do anything, now I’m checking bios…
…jesus christ i shouldn’t have tried to mess with anything, my previous method of just putting anything i needed from the internet on a flash drive from my laptop worked well enough
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I think what is happening here is your Linux decide to prove me wrong.
I said:
And Linux went, “Oh really?!”.
…where would I look for this bios option?
My BIOS is old style, so you just check the main headers til you see something about graphics. Your BIOS looks like it was made for gamers to make them feel comfortable.
I have no idea. Look around for “graphics”, “display”, or some other related word. Maybe even “boot options”. I really don’t know.
I looked everywhere and couldn’t find anything
WAIT WHAT
…well I rebooted into the kernel that was broken the first time I installed it, and now it works for no goddamn reason…
checking the wifi right now
edit: no, the wifi is still broken in the exact same way. I’m just back to where we started.
they told me taking estrogen would make me better at linux and they lied
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Technically, it shouldn’t have not worked in the first place.
Kernels are no different from other packages in terms of impact on booting an already booting system. Like if you install an additional kernel and forget to run reinstall-kernels or the grub update, you should still be able to reboot and boot into your system. You just can’t boot with the newly installed kernel. It’s why I said no big deal.
Yay! Better than where we went for the last few hours. 
You never know what could help with stress… I mean Linux. 
…any more ideas? I’m still exactly where I started T-T
The same idea I had. Maybe it’s a kernel issue, so the idea was to use the LTS kernel, and maybe it would be more compatible with your hardware/drivers.
But seeing as things went south last time, back up first if you can.
well, the LTS kernel is what doesn’t reach desktop
Meaning both the current kernel and Zen kernels reach the desktop?
If you haven’t tried them (the LTS in particular) since loading into your BIOS settings, you can maybe try them now. And if you run into nothing reaching the desktop, load into the BIOS again so it automagically fixes what shouldn’t need to be fixed.
Only my original kernel works, LTS and zen both fail.
hey, now I only have 1 ip, but that didn’t fix it…
turns out that was never the problem
The kernel thing was my one realistic idea, so someone else can try to help with getting the internet to work on the current kernel, barring a BIOS update is really all that’s needed.
My other idea was already mentioned: VPN blocking access. One that starts up at boot. This is the kind of thing that would cause what you’re experiencing.
You said you don’t have one, but if you did, you’d need to log in and run it in a more front-facing way, like a VPN app or network manager, in order to get net access.
A third idea, which is a weird one, as it should not work. Create a new user, log into it, check if the internet works. If it doesn’t, log out, log back into your current user, delete the new one. If it does work, you got a Hail Mary that makes no sense to me. 
And the final idea is that it’s your ISP. They think, “Hey, he’s using Linux for privacy. That’s not allowed. Block his Linux traffic”. But this would be difficult, I think, and you can access the net from the LiveISO, so that’s not it.
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the last one might honestly have some merit, since I’d torrented some shows an hour before my pc crashed and I had to reboot… but that wouldn’t explain why it also doesn’t work with the hotspot, or why it does work with the liveUSB.
Exactly.
But also, to confirm, the only privacy Linux offers on its own is that neither Apple nor Microsoft have constant access to your system since you would not be using either Mac or Windows for day-to-day use. No other privacy is covered.
So torrenting is very much visible to your ISP. Only VPNs, Tor, etc. hide that.
I’m aware, I have a vpn for that, what I mean is that it doesn’t launch at startup, and has been off the whole time I’ve been testing. I tried turning it on to check if that was the issue, and it was not.
I also just tried a new user, no luck with that either
Okay. Well, back up for now until someone comes up with a different solution. I really think it’s between the kernel and the outdated BIOS, though.
Hope you get some help soon.
…I’m just a dumbass, I launched windscribe, turned it off and back on again, and now it works…
BUT IT WORKS NOW