No need to apologize. It's not like I'm paying you for tech support, your just helping me out for however long your able. And that's fine. I thank you for that.

And I'm ready whenever you are.

Then I got nothin. Unless there was some update in the package manager that messed it up, because that's all I did after installing the new driver.

Well I'm no expert obviously. So it may have just been my fault.

Nvidia GTX 970. I used the driver manager to begin with and after 10 minutes of being on it I crashed like crazy. Haven't crashed using the new one I got from mamarley ppa.

I really don't know what the difference is tbh. Maybe I just did something wrong after using the driver manager that messed up the newly installed driver.

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It worked with just sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Yeah

After fixing my crashing problem I tried sudo os-prober and it returned this "No volume groups found."

Does it say that because there's only one OS on this HDD? My windows 7 installation is on a SSD if you remember.

Yeah. Installed it with a usb on my hdd.

I just tried doing this today and it's crashed on me for unknown reasons multiple times.

Sounds like me on Mint right now, installed nvidia drivers fianlly, set up dual montiors correctly. Updated all packages and then restarted and now it just crashes constantly and says that mint is in fallback mode. Guess I'll try fixing that later.

I actually do have another question now that I've installed it. Is there a good (easy) way to actually boot into another OS? Instead of going into bios and selecting the boot menu and all that.

I actually already joined the tribe before making this post, I was looking for any linux tribes that had to do with noobs. Thanks for the invite though!

I've never heard of XFCE before. Is it part of Mint? Or a package you install? Or is it another distro entirely?

Alright, thanks for the info. Better safe than sorry.

I guess eventually someone will make some sort of tribe for helping or troubleshooting problems. I couldn't find one so I just thought why not here.

Besides my time, there's actually nothing that I'd have a problem with losing at the moment. All important documents are either on google drive or dropbox. Games are all over steam or gog. Maybe grab some wallpapers or something like that.

I'll keep you in mind in case something goes awry. I just didn't know if installing it on a completely separate hdd would complicate things for me. Already have it on a usb ready to go. Thanks for the help!

Are you using mate or cinnamon?

Everyone I've talked to says Linux is far lighter than Windows so how much better does Linux, or mint exactly in this case, perform on an ssd compared to a hdd?