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Welp, I just apt purge'd damn near everything except the kernel. How's your Friday going? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hear this is a rite of passage. I made it 4 weeks before I rekt all my shit (it was nvidia related). Where do I claim my sticker?

In all seriousness, now that I understand better these commands that I've been haphazardly throwing around, Id like to do a clean install. God knows what else Ive done to it. Can i just reinstall to my root partition and have my home partition work as expected?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t manually install anything.

Like I said, you're misrepresenting what's happened here...

You said specifically that you had to remove the existing driver, and those drivers don't come pre-installed, nor do they get automatically installed. So you had to have installed them yourself for you to have to remove them to install the right driver. lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Reread my comment.

"On my machine, Ubuntu upgrade/install AND sudo ubuntu-drivers install BOTH flag the drivers Ubuntu installed as manually installed."

That's why I have to manually remove them to choose a better nvidia driver.

I can't say it any clearer