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Nvidia is a bit notorious on Linux for being harder to set up. That said, Pop is a good choice and should mostly get things right.
It sounds like you have 2 issues:
Bootloader
Pop not getting resolution right
Both are certainly fixable, but 1 might seem more daunting.
1: Windows' bootloader tends not to play nice with Linux. If you want to dual-boot (have both systems available), then the typical advice is to set up Windows first with only 1 drive plugged in. Then install your second drive, put Linux on it, and put the bootloader on the second drive. Then in BIOS, select drive 2 as your boot volume. It is easier to get the Linux bootloader to boot Windows than vice versa.
2: if you hit the Windows key, you should get the Pop launcher. Type "settings" and hit enter. Go to the Display tab and then change your resolution to something lower than now. You'll have to move windows around to get where you need -- use alt+drag to do that without the title bar visible.
Thank you, but I am very stupid so I need more help.
My drives are two tiny little SSD things attached to my motherboard, if those are removable honestly I wouldn't even have the slightest idea how to.
I can't change resolution. It's set at 640:480 (4:3) and I can't click or change it. And on my widescreen monitor everything is huge and the windows are being cut off
You're not stupid, you're learning a new thing.
Important: playing with installations and partitions is an easy way to lose data, even for the most experienced folks. If you don't have what you need backed up off the system, focus that before anything else.
If you don't need dual boot, I'd say just forget about Windows.
If you do, and reinstalling Windows is an option, do that first. Then, once complete, change your BIOS setting to boot off the Linux drive. Install it to that drive again. This should mean that the Linux bootloader picks up Windows and gives an option to boot into it (if it doesn't show up, it can be added).
If reinstalling Windows is not an option, then I think you need to a) let Windows do its recovery thing, which will rewrite its bootloader on the primary drive, and then b) switch the boot drive in BIOS and install Linux on the second drive. Install its bootloader on the second drive when it asks. Never change the BIOS back and you should see Linux's bootloader give you a boot option.
I'm so sorry, I don't really even understand most of that. My GPU is an NVidia 1080ti and my motherboard is some kind of ASRock MSI I think. I don't know what Maxwell/Pascal means. And at this point I'm happy to have either Pop or Windows and I'm willing to do whatever trial and error, but I have no idea what to try.
I don't know where to go, how to fix this. I tried doing "sudo apt-get install system76-driver-nvidia" based on a reddit post but get back that my driver is already the newest version.
I'm so lost, I have no clue what to do next other than cry, tbh
Ok, let me back up a little. Don't worry, things will get fixed.
The 1080ti is a Pascal card (the architecture of that series). This has implications for drivers and performance.
First: when you installed Pop, did you select the installer with nvidia support? There are multiple installers, but the one you want is the one which explicitly says it is for nvidia.
PS- if you don't want to worry about Linux for the moment, or are too nervous to continue, letting windows do its fixes should recover you to where you were before the Linux install. Just make sure the Windows drive is selected for boot in BIOS. I'd say stick with it, but it's your call.
I installed "casper_pop-os_22.04_amd64_nvidia_debug_1131
And I would love to let Window do its fix but it isn't working. It fails and when I select Continue to Windows anyway (or whatever it says) it just goes back to the repair screen.
This is an old version, and "debug" normally suggests this is not a stable build.
~~The most current nvidia version on
system76.com/pop/downloadis 24.04 with the filenamepop-os_24.04_amd64_nvidia_23.iso.~~ Ah but it is not compatible with Pascal cards.And the Windows drive is selected as the boot drive in BIOS?
Yes. It doesn't give me the windows repair if I have the Pop installed drive set as the boot drive, it just goes into Pop
I edited my comment above because there might be something else on the Linux side. Pop 24.04 is explicitly incompatible with Pascal cards, and System76 do not make old builds explicitly available. I'm not sure if 22.04 was compatible with Pascal either, so that may be your entire issue with drivers on the Linux side. From what I can tell, the nvidia package itself requires a 16xx series card or newer.
Edit: Yes, it looks like nvidia have dropped support for Pascal in their official Linux driver just 2 months ago. And that's why Linux people tend to hate nvidia. :)
This also means that the Linux bootloader was already on the second drive, and the bootloader on the first one should not have been overwritten. So it isn't clear what happened to Windows unless there were other runs of the Linux installer which had the bootloader location set improperly.
If it were me, I'd start experimenting with restoring the system to the original configuration entirely (i.e. wipe the second drive so it's blank, and see if the Windows repair process goes differently). I wonder if Windows cannot recognize (or won't recognize) what is on drive 2, and instead of telling you that, it just errors out.
Just jumping in here to clarify a thing the other poster asked. "Do you have onboard graphics?" So if you look at the back of your computer, you have the graphics card your monitor is plugged into and potentially other slots along this same card.
What they're asking is, is there another place, not attached to this same card, where you can plug your monitor into? This would probably be near USB and or audio connections. If you do have that, you may be able to plug your monitor into that instead and the computer can use that INSTEAD of the NVIDIA you're having issues with. In theory, this would allow you to change resolution settings so you can follow some of the fixes listed here by others.
That's about as far as my knowledge goes on this though, just the physical components lol. Listen to that guy for the software part.
I am not sure if I missed something in the thread, but did you try going to settings > peripheral devices > screen, and changing the resolution? I have seen mentioned flipping the video card selection to or from VGA and back can help.
I have loaded PopOS before, but did not really care for it and am now on Mint. I would be happy to load it up on a system tonight and help you troubleshoot a bit as I have a spare small PC with a 1080 in it.
Edit: Ah, I see that you did try and it won't let you change it. I can load Pop up anyways to have it handy in case you reach out for help. I'll try and load the specific release you did.