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☺ I got sick of Windows and switched to Linux on my Lenovo ThinkPad T420 two months ago. After trying a few distro/flavors I settled on Xubuntu 18.0.4. It was always a little buggy with random program crashes and errors, but it worked fine until last night.

When I rebooted last night, it asked me to unlock my disk and log into my user acct, then it went to a flickering white screen. I did a little research and figured the problem was "LightDM" went rogue. So I purged and reinstalled it … same thing. I kept reading and found the problem could have been proprietary Nvidia drivers. I tried to purge them from recovery but got some "system is in read-only mode" error, even with sudo.

I rebooted again, and now my laptop doesn't even the Lenovo boot screen. It boots straight into a solid white screen. I tried pressing buttons to get to the boot menu, and they made their usual noises, but the screen stayed white. Please help me! I'm starting college in 2 months and don't have money. Thank you so much in advance.

JC.529
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  • You don't need money to solve it. check this solutions https://askubuntu.com/questions/908764/display-manager-gdm3-not-working-under-ubuntu-17-04 – ASIL Jun 13 '18 at 11:54
  • ASIL, that link just says to reinstall Ubuntu. I cannot even get to my laptop's pre-boot screen to say to launch from a flash drive. I suppose I could just just look up the keyboard shortcuts and reinstall it without the display. Do you have any leads where to find the shortcuts? – JC.529 Jun 13 '18 at 13:08
  • Okay, so I navigated the BIOS to the boot screen from memory, but I still can't see … – JC.529 Jun 13 '18 at 18:18

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