I've got the weirdest issue with Ubuntu all of the sudden. It's completely unusable and I cannot fix it for whatever reason. A good thing to note is that it worked perfectly fine for the first couple of times I've used it. The symptoms are: Random applications opening themselves over and over, any context menus I try to open on launchpad immediately hide when the mouse goes over them, and something random usually opens, my keyboard doesn't light up (it has power, because it's status light turns on, but the aesthetic lights don't turn on and no keyboard input goes through). I completely reinstalled Ubuntu, and the exact same thing happened again. I'm not opposed to switching to another distro, I just need to be able to dual boot it with windows 8.
Note: This is Ubuntu 12.04