Oh it makes sense but
1) I quite dislike ubuntu in the first place so if I was able to install an OS I would but it would not be ubuntu as I see it a company cannot make critical worthwhile changes to a OS in just 6 months and go through the entire development process.
2) This is an old laptop it has 40gb of hdd space so having a partition exclusively for root is a
I rally appreciate your help but your over complicating the problem.