Post #4157263

2026-07-28 07:08 UTC

Update: I’m giving up. I tried every solution I could find. Tried the LTS kernel, fucking around with dracut options. I don’t know what the issue is or how to fix it. I’ll be backing up my shit now and will move back to windows until I can find the brain power necessary for a reinstall. Don’t know yet if I’ll stick to EndeavourOS or try nix or something, EOS worked out of the box with my NVIDIA card. I want to thank everyone for your support. I would not have guessed for this issue to be so deep that it couldn’t be fixed, it is what it is I guess.

Replies (3)

@uairhahs@lemmy.world 2026-07-28 07:48

Hey I encountered a similar issue. The boot drive switched from mounting to /efi/ to /boot/ on the off chance that this may be causing the same issue for you check stabs and you kernel cmdline

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@eugenia@lemmy.ml 2026-07-28 11:38

Just install a distro that doesn’t fail like that by overwriting system files on a whim. You’re saying that you’re going from an arch based system (which are prone to get weird errors every few weeks), to NixOS, which has at the very least a steep learning curve. My assessment is that you are asking for trouble yourself. I know that Debian-stable sounds boring, but it never breaks like that. If you’re truly burnt out as you say, you would go with the safe, unglamorous solution. I used to tinker with Linux all the time (I started on slackware in 1998), now I just run Mint on laptops, and Debian on my PCs. I just don’t want bad surprises anymore, I’m at an age that the OS needs to work as expected.

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@Neuromancer49@midwest.social 2026-07-29 01:15

If you do switch back to Linux I’ll note that Endeavour and other Arch forks have moved away from older NVIDIA cards because NVIDIA stopped supporting open source drivers. There’s community-maintained solutions out there though. I forget exactly how old, but my 1080 got the boot, and then I had to gety Grover’s from AUR for a bit, right before that security breach. That contributed to my decision to upgrade to a new AMD card.

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