Why would you voluntarily use an OS that installs BIOS updates (broken or not) without consent? It's egregious even if the timing wasn't inconvenient.

Sure wouldn’t ever again!

At the time i was probably a little preoccupied and just clicked yes, safe in the delusion that no distro nor any hardware vendor would ever push a laptop bricking bios update.

Sibling got it. Feel disabled sleep so if you didn’t shut it down and wait before closing the lid and putting in your bag it fried the mobo. Yeah. If you treated your laptop like a laptop the way you’d used it hundreds of times that was now like tossing it in the dishwasher.

Unbelievable. Yet it happened. I hate Dell. I’m not letting go of that anger. Ubuntu, meh. Pretty poor but still not Dell.