I really hate dealing with nodes.

The one I've been using for the last year is turning off randomly. No clue what's wrong. Suspect it's the raspi so I thought I would install core onto a laptop.

Thought it would be a good chance to unshackle myself from Windows and try Ubuntu.

Days later, halting steps. Ubuntu installed. Core is verified and installed. Blockchain is syncing.

For a few hours anyway. App crashes for no reason, and now it's refusing to start, even with

'snap connect bitcoin-core:removable media'

from the command line.

For fuck's sake. I like Ubuntu well enough from what I've seen, but it was a huge mistake since I've never touched Linux before. Seriously considering abandoning the whole thing and going back to Windows. At least I understand how that shit works well enough to properly troubleshoot.

Ugh. I need to go to bed and look at this with fresh eyes tomorrow.