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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    Get another OS on a bootable USB—Cachy, Ubuntu, whatever—and install over Pop. This is like a 15 min process. The hardest part is making a bootable drive, you’ll just need access to another comp to throw another OS onto the USB, but then you’re done. Hell, use it as an opportunity to try out some different distros lol

    You just need something on there that is 1080 friendly because you currently do not.

    You could troubleshoot, but the best way to beat a broken fresh install is with a better fresh install, since you’re already there.

    Once done, deal with whatever Window’s issue is after that, if it even still has one. Use GRUB moving onward.