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I tried to install Pop! and broke my system and really really need help if anyone is willing (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Vespair@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Hi I'm so sorry I don't mean to be a bother or force anyone into unpaid support, but I'm having a full meltdown and if I can't fix my system I'm screwed. I really thought I was doing it right and installing Pop to my second D drive to leave windows alone but somehow it completely broke Windows and I can load into that, only Pop! And unfortunately Pop! I guess isn't really my GPU (Nvidia 1080ti I think) so on my 4k monitor everything is blown up and the wrong aspect ratio, cutting off the bottoms of windows I Pop! so I can't even navigate this system that I'm 100% entirely unfamiliar with. I don't even care about getting windows back at this point if I can get Pop! usable, I just need a usable machine. I've tried some terminal stuff I've read online already but nothing has worked and I'm afraid to do the purge ~nnvidia command because it said it might turn my screen black and if I can't even get into Pop! then I'm screwed. I don't even know what help I need but I desperately need help

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I'm too stupid for this. I don't understand what anyone is saying, nothing is working. I don't know what to do. I need to stay away for a few because if I don't I'm going to kill myself. I'm very sorry and I appreciate everyone's help, I wish I that I was smarter and I wish that I was stronger.

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[–] pogodem0n@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hey, thanks for the update! You actually are quite experienced. These things are best taken slowly. I would recommend trying things out (including installation and dual booting another OS) on a virtual machine. VirtualBox is a good program for this on Windows. If things ever go south, you can just delete the VM and create another one, without affecting your main PC and files on it.

Also, there is one unfortunate problem that will affect your graphics card. Nvidia recently dropped support for Pascal (GTX 10x series) and older graphics cards with version 590 of their driver.

I highly recommend Bazzite. It has a dedicated version that supports legacy Nvidia cards. Its immutable nature makes is extremely hard to mess things up. Plus, it is getting really popular since last year. So, you are likely to get much better community support than Pop!_OS anyway.