Rebuilding the package database because reasons I guess. After that, will try to install Mate. Then, maybe, I will have a desktop.

Nope. Ubuntu knows better. It enables the Radeon driver. Compiz says "hi" then "argh". I am not going to google a solution.

Now trying to force X11 to use fbdev

There must be a safe, non accelerated desktop option to fall back on. Right??

Compiz is segfaulting.

This laptop is regularly abused with vs2015 and has been a workhorse. It's Ubuntu and not the damned hard ware

Well, this was a waste of time. The blue screen of derp happened again the moment I restarted.

Must be because it's a blue screen and a white box blinking every half second telling me it has experienced a internal error

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I honestly do not know

Here we are again. Ubuntu. Let's see how it goes this time.