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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  • Andrew Beveridge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Hey dude, I know lemmy is generally pretty anti AI (for various good reasons) but having read your other replies on this post, since you said you don’t know what help you need;

    I think there are probably only two things which might help you quickly (since you seem to be in a hurry, understandably so if it’s your only computer):

    1. find someone experienced with Linux who’s willing to get on a phone call with you and talk things through, diagnose and guide you step by step till you have a usable system again. I might be willing to be that person if you’re desperate and can’t find anyone else, I’m free ish for the next few hours.

    2. use another device with a camera (eg smartphone) to access one of the multi modal llms eg Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude etc and get help from the LLM, with you describing everything you did so far as best as you can and what symptoms you’re seeing now, potentially sharing photos of what your hardware is and what you see etc. Follow things step by step and ask it to explain things as you go, try to learn throughout the process rather than just running things blindly.

    Good luck! Try not to be put off by this experience, use it as an opportunity to learn more about how your tech works and help yourself be more prepared for recovery in future (eg always have a bootable Linux usb stick ready to hand)🙏

    • Vespair@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      I did try resolution through chatgpt tbh but I did not get anywhere with it and the ran out of responses with the newer model and was scared about the veracity of the older model (and I was scared about it with the newer model too).

      Unfortunately I don’t have many friends and none of them are remotely tech savvy, so I don’t have anyone to turn to for support here

      • KnightontheSun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        You have us! Seems there are a few willing to assist. Breaking things is an excellent opportunity to learn! My IT career was kicked off by breaking computers!

      • Andrew Beveridge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Feel free to email me ([email protected]) or text me (US: (803) 636-3267) (UK: 07835171222) and I’ll do my best to help - ideally if we can jump on a video call you can show me stuff and I’ll walk you through what your options are!