Announcement: I, an Ubuntu guy through and through, have successfully fixed a problem on my work computer running Windows. I will now take questions.
@ianthealy Did this solution involve installing Ubuntu over the top of Windows?
@b4cks4w Nope, because I don't have that much say over my workstation.
@ianthealy I hear ya. Could you install it in WSL? That's getting pretty good I hear.
@b4cks4w I managed to get gimp and LibreOffice and I'm not going to push it any further. Lol
@ianthealy
In my mind Ubuntu or any of its many branches can fix the world