The secureboot is borked apparently, which prevents me from booting anything. Fortunately I just had to disable it from the UEFI. It boots now! I have other issues but everything in time! I think I can fix them from a live image actually. Thanks for the help!

Yea I heard nvidia is terrible with Linux. Unfortunately in my line of work I don't really have a choice... maybe with HIP-RT... in a few years... let's see!

I'll be conservative with graphics updates then. Thanks a lot for the advice

lol, yes. Thank you I disabled secureboot and it boots ok now. Thanks for the feedback it does help understanding a bit about how this all works. If that wasn't obvious enough I'm a big noob with Linux.

Anyway, can I leave secureboot disabled and be fine? or is this MOK business something I should solve right now?

Thanks again

i have used linux alot, and if there's anything that annoys me the most is A) people who say linux is for everyone and B) some rando downloads a distro and when they run into HW issues they post on fourms and reddit like its personal tech support. when you get to that point, stop, and reinstall windows 11.

And you hang out here and do what exactly? Either you're happy with win11 or you're not. Replying to random people's comment by raging against linux in a linux memes community while supposedly running windows and liking it is a bit weird isn't it?

And you sound like you havent touched a proper linux OS in the past 5 years. Things have genuinely gotten better. But I see you seem quite fixated on coming here to argue instead (again.. quite weird to do so when you have no horse in the race)

good for him. I like my apps to run natively. so i use windows 11

But uninstalling edge would actually break your computer

And that's not even a linux problem! The software/hardware vendors don't want to support Linux. It's their loss!

Pewdiepie runs arch and hyprland. What's your excuse?

your info is outdated at best.

you're barking up the wrong tree mister/ms. Go yell at your software/hardware vendor

You can do it in place, that's what I did with the server.

You have to live boot a USB or kexec a Linux environment and then use https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/cryptsetup-reencrypt.8.html together with --reduce-device-size 32M and disk partitioning tools.

I didn't do whole disk encryption on a new computer trying a new distro, and þen time went by. Now, I want to retroactively do it, but I'm intimidated.

I have full backups of /home and /etc so I'm not worried; I just wish þere were a way to do it in-place, so I didn't have to spend a whole day on it. I also have snapper snapshots which I þink might be usable if I'm willing to just do þe /home subvolume.

Anyway, I feel you. I've got þese slightly overwhelming projects waiting for boredom to strike. It's great when it goes more smoothly þan you expect. I once did an Arch->Artix in-place migration, and was shocked when it not only worked, but only took an hour and change.

Arch enters the chat

This is why I have a dev PC that I have no problem blowing the OS up on. Any files that i want to keep i store in other locations.

are you saying linux is NOT for people who don't know how to use a cli? because thats my point.

also Linux: “can i use X app?”

Drink this wine or grab this atoms core (proton)

It’s for people who aren’t tech literate. The people who don’t know/shouldn’t be using cli commands or editing the registry.

Mint has a driver manager application that makes installing nvidia drivers point-and-click simple.

Come to think of it, the three PCs I use on a regular basis all have nvidia GPUs (970, 1080, discrete quadro in a dell laptop) and all are running Mint. No problems, even playing games.

I even use that one script to unlock the number of simultaneous NVENC sessions after I update the driver.

Sounds representative, it didn't even try to stop you!

Everyone else is saying secure boot should be correct. I was unable to load my nvidia driver until disabling secure boot, but I luckily had integrated graphics. What I think happened is you switched to to nvidia drivers that required proper secure boot before it would load. The drivers that are loaded before that don't require secure boot to be setup so that's why you had an output.

This is just an nvidia thing unfortunately.

If I may ask, what software are you referring to? The only software I could think of off the top of my head that doesn't have suitable replacements for Linux is creative production software like the Adobe suite and DAWs, professional CAD software like AutoDesk, and, like, AutoHotKey.

In Linux, you are in charge. If you say jump, Linux asks "how high." If you ask Linux to bomb a daycare it'll say "run with sudo or root." If you ask Linux to sudo bomb a daycare it'll say "should I leave no witnesses?"

You should know nvidia is the worst and it is definitely an nvidia problem. Nothing else (even DNS) is, such a pain on linux. Nvidia routinely ships broken software on their stable branch even for their top of the line consumer cards.

I have two 4k monitors and run many flavors of Linux as daily drivers. Plus I have a 4090. It's not a super common setup but for a company as huge as nvidia they should be testing dual monitor setups and it is clear they do not. I have stopped updating my nvidia drivers after the 3rd time I lost basic functionality after a driver update.

Like the hardware or just the install?

A live usb would let you in to fix it

SSH in and forcibly uninstall all Nvidia packages, then reinstall them fresh following Nvidia’s website.

At least this has worked for me on Ubuntu on several occasions.