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God I hate fluorescent lights. They're under my kitchen counters. Both
bulbs stopped working on one fixture. Replaced bulbs and only one side
works. Getting the bulb out if a fixture somebody installed in one of our
bedrooms was a b*tch because the tube is too close to the fixture. And how
many sizes/types of bulbs are there? You're assured of buying the wrong
one. And it doesn't help that there's no standard way the bulbs
engage/disengage from the fixture. Don't get me started on the bulbs with
only one prong on each end.

If I were you and if it's possible, I'd throw the whole fixture away. There
are better choices for lighting out there now.

I hate them also. Part of my job was to replace the lamps where I worked.
This is a building that has 3 to 7 floors depending on the part you are in.
There is about 40 acres under roof. They must have someof every kind made.
Some 8 feet long, some 4 feet , some with one pin on each end, some with 2
pins onthe end. A few years before I retired there was a big building
project. In the control room there was a room aabout 10 x 20 feet that was
suspose to have a drop cealing and several lights. When construction left
there was one dual bulb fixture held up by ty wraps. The sent me and
another worker to install another fixture. They would not buy one that
matched the other,but found an old one. It takes differant lamps than the
one already there. Tha tseems to be the way the whole plant is.
Then the low power stuff came out. That was another set of bulbs and we had
to replace the ballast when we changed out the bulbs.