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I'm having the same problem as this person: Fn Media keys slow/delayed on ubuntu gnome 17.04

I've already looked everywhere, and I could not find an answer. AskUbuntu, the Arch Wiki, Reddit, Discord, IRC, etc. Nothing. I don't think I can put much more detail into this because it's the same problem and it happens every time without fail. Not happening on Wayland, so indeed an Xorg issue.

This also happens on the Budgie desktop and on the default Gnome desktop, so I'm starting to think that this is something to do with Gnome/GTK but I have no idea how to fix it on my system, absolutely no clue.

I'm on Ubuntu 17.10, on Intel Integrated Graphics on an i3 3217U and 8GBs of RAM. Laptop model is an ASUS X550C.

I'm using Kubuntu 17.04
My touchpad was having problems, so I asked for help and someone suggested removing libinput and rebooting. I did that, like an idiot.

After the reboot, my touchpad was working! But my USB mouse and the laptop's built in keyboard were not. Even a USB keyboard didn't work. Couldn't CTRL+ALT+F1 into the terminal either. So I tried recovery mode to just reinstall libusb and live with the USB mouse... but I can't connect to the internet through there. Lan cable doesn't work, wifi doesn't work, and the network-manager service just dies on me either way.

I am lost, I don't know what to do, I need this computer, but I'm a noob and can't fix things. Reinstalling is an option but it would be very very inconvenient.

I actually almost got it to boot into the terminal and I was almost able to log in, but SDDM started shortly after and killed my keyboard again, because libinput isn't installed.

This is the first time I've ever tried to install a Linux distro in my PC. I have used Linux already, but that was some years ago and it was a really ugly distro made for schools, so I thought that Linux was s*** and just stuck to Windows. A few days ago I found out about Ubuntu, and decided I would give it a try.

Since my computer DVD port won't open, I decided to use a USB drive. My first try was using Universal USB Installer. The process went fairly quickly in this old 2006 PC and I thought I would just plug it in, choose USB-HDD as boot and everything would work fine. Unfortunately, I got an error saying that something called syslinux was missing, so I just restarted the computer, booted into Windows XP and did some research.

I used WinMD5Sum on my .iso and it was OK. I tried renaming isolinux, isolinux.bin and isolinux.cfg to syslinux, syslinux.bin and syslinux.cfg, but still no luck. So I thought my computer just wouldn't boot from FAT32, and since it was not formatting things properly, I used my cousin's Windows 8.1 machine, but I soon found out I couldn't format in FAT16, because the pendrive is 8GB. So I formatted it in NTFS because someone said it worked.

I then did the process again with Universal USB Installer, but now, instead of giving me the syslinux error, it just booted straight to Windows, even if I choose USB-HDD. Then I tried UNetbootin and same problem. As I type this in, I'm doing the process one more time in FAT32 now using Universal USB Installer, because at least that gave me some sign of life. Please, anyone that has some experience with Ubuntu, help me. I have to quickly get rid of the Windows XP in this machine because it's so full of crap, it's even scary to use.