I've fairly new to Linux/Ubuntu, I currently have it installed on second partition alongside Windows 10. I was happily using 16.04 on my laptop for a couple of weeks (using NVidia drivers), then I had some issues when I attempt to use a secondary monitor. I thought maybe I could run the Xorg drivers over the NVidia ones, uninstalled the NVidia drivers and thought I had installed the Xorg ones. Apparently that's not what happened, and I could not longer boot Ubuntu.
I tried to correct the problem with a liveCD in the for of a USB drive. I reinstalled the NVidia driver and was met by an infinite log in, after a repeated attempts to solve the problem I was unable to. So I decided to reinstall Ubuntu, I wiped the Ubuntu partitions and reinstalled it in the same place. Ubuntu runs incredibly slowly, the UI takes moments to react and builds down from the top of the screen, I remembered this happening immediately after my original install but that it went away when I installed the NVidia drivers. Every time I install the NVidia drivers (through:
sudo apt install nvidia-390
or whichever version I try) I end up with a log in loop, I can still get to the terminal with ctrl + alt + f1, so I can purge the drivers etc, but then I'm back to square one. I've tried reinstalling a number of times, also tried 17.10 and Kubuntu, but can't get any of them to play ball. I can't work out what's different between last week, when Ubuntu was running perfectly happily, and this one.
I'd like to reiterate that this happens every time I install NVidia drivers.
I am running a Dell XPS 15:
- 32GB of RAM
- 1TB SSD
- NVidia GeForce GTX1050 (4GB)
- Onboard Intel Graphics card
- Intel Core i7
