I recently installed Ubuntu on an old laptop. Everything worked for a week. Then the touchpad stopped working. There are many pages telling you how to debug a

I recently installed Ubuntu on an old laptop. Everything worked for a week. Then the touchpad stopped working. There are many pages telling you how to debug a touchpad. I tried various incantations of installing, reinstalling, uninstalling drivers, one set or another. I ran some special commands to capture messages coming out of the touchpad - showing it actually, at some level, worked. Just didn't move the mouse. Nothing helped. That it's even a thing to debug a touchpad is precisely what's "wrong" with Linux. Windows, crapware that it is, for me had never this kind of 1->0 failures. It's just all meh.