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There are several ways, via the Software Center or via Hardware Drivers in the system menu or by downloading it directly from nvidia and manually installing?

  1. The software center way assumes you know which driver you need and if you install the wrong one you'll end up with no GUI.
  2. The Hardware Drivers way will only give you the main branch it thinks your GPU needs including 32bit drivers required for gaming.
  3. Downloading from nvidia's website directly and installing this way is unsupported will break your system either straight away or when you update.

After booting to the screen with the blinking _
Press ctrl+alt+f2 you'll have a terminal login screen, login as normal and run eopkg li | grep nvidia- and report the output here.

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      nvidia-340-glx-driver-modaliases
      nvidia-390-glx-driver-modaliases
      nvidia-glx-driver-common
      nvidia-glx-driver-modaliases

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      Harvey nvidia-340-glx-driver-modaliases
      nvidia-390-glx-driver-modaliases
      nvidia-glx-driver-common
      nvidia-glx-driver-modaliases

        Ok assuming thats everything it listed, you've installed part of the driver (common) not the entire thing.

        Run:
        sudo eopkg it nvidia-glx-driver-current
        Then reboot:
        sudo reboot

        You should now have the GUI back.

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          Harvey Seems to have worked perfectly!

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            Harvey Thank you very much

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                Harvey Seems to have broken the text in the terminal? Not sure how this happened.. But the only notable change was the driver update - ignore the fact that the image is super blue, not sure why that happened when I screenshotted

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                  EDIT: What do you mean by broken? The text overlapping? Not sure on that one.

                  Additionally:
                  Sorry I forgot if you are gaming you're going to want the 32bit dirvers as well. Steam won't even launch without this.

                  Open the terminal and run:
                  sudo eopkg it nvidia-glx-driver-32bit

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                      Harvey Thank you, but this did not fix the issue with the terminal. The text spacing is all off for some reason now.

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                          Harvey Yes, was talking about the terminal text spacing, should I make a new post?

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                              May be worth while to get more exposure, it should not be related to installing the nvidia driver.

                              If you do provide a screenshot of inside budgie settings under the font section. Also if you have not already done so make sure you are up to date:
                              sudo eopkg up -y

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                                  Harvey If you don't know what to do, I'll make another post. Here's my current settings:

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                                    Harvey I misread, you said font, not front:

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                                        Harvey Alright, will make a new one right away 🙂 - just wasn't wanting to spam the forums

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                                          I run Plasma but checked Budgie under a VM.

                                          For me in order of appearance:
                                          Clear Sans Bold 9
                                          Noto Sans Regular 9
                                          Noto Sans Regular 9
                                          Hack Regular 9
                                          1.00
                                          Slight
                                          Subpixel (for LCD screens).

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                                              Harvey That fixed it!