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

submitted 1 week ago by towelie@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You misunderstood what I wrote.

I didn't manually install anything.

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

When you go to the Additional Drivers, it says you have manually installed drivers and all options are greyed out.

Why do I want another driver? I found the open driver Ubuntu chose to install was flaky and provided substandard performance compared to the proprietary driver.

And I have my commands to remove drivers, and for reference, the commands you give won't help a noob, and your steps are incomplete for earlier Ubuntu versions.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee -1 points 1 week 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

[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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