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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    I appreciate that information, and promise I am not trying to be unappreciative or rude, but I don’t know how that helps me in this moment.

    Should I try to redownload a newer install on Pop!? I am concerned because to even make the USB in the first place on windows required using an app called Rufus that I don’t understand how worked, so I’m concerned if I’m savvy enough to understand how to do that, to be honest.

    I’m not trying to difficult, I promise, I’m just wildly out of my depth. I want to learn Linux because I want to be free of MS’s grasp and because support for my windows 10 has ended anyway, but I worry I’m genuinely just not smart enough

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      I fucked up my systems quite a lot back in the day and had to reinstall everything from scratch, because I was inexperienced. Lost quite a lot of personal data as well, cause I had no backups ofc.

      If I were you, I’d try to fix windows rn. (for that you’ll probably get better help on the windows reddit)

      And then attempt a linux dual boot again but this time preparing a bit better, reading more, using the newest versions, having a backup plan if everything fails again.

      If you can do a videocall on your phone through discord or wire I can hop in a session and help you in about 20h from now. Videocall so I can see whats on your screen and tell you what to do.

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        If my problem hasn’t been solved by then I will absolutely take you up on your video call offer, thank you so much