No, try it just as above
Thatās what I get when I put in the above. I didnāt attempt to change anything.
Ok, that may be because itās purging ALL files, but cannot locate that remaining file.
I am a bit embarrassed I did not think of that til just now.
Are you able to proceed with the rest?
Tryingā¦
Ok tried next line and it gives me the same message from before:
E: command line option āpā [from -purge] is not understood in combination with other options.
Keep going with the rest?
-facepalm-
sudo apt-get purge xserver-xorg
The remove -purge works in normal System 
Reading package listsā¦Done
Building dependancy tree
Reading state informationā¦Done
Package āxserver-xorgā is not installed so not removed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
librg11-mesa libglu1-mesa lib11vm9 libxatrackerZ libxvmc1 uno-libs3 x11-aps x11-session-utils xbitmaps xinit xinput
Use āsudo apt autoremoveā to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Ok, continue with the rest
ok
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
went through with too much to list.
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core
basically that it is already the newest version and set to manually installed.
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
gives me command not found.
I must be moving too fast, sorry... That should have been,
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
Already the newest version and set to manually installed.
Ok
Back to the default grub,
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
change to
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden
GRUB_TIMEOUT=1
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=āquiet splash nomodesetā
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=āinitrd=/casper/initrd.lz4ā
sudo update-grub
sudo reboot
And weāre back in. Sweet sweet copy/paste, how Iāve missed you.
Lemme check software update.
Honestlyā¦ My goal for the last twenty minutes was just to get to where the computer boots up somewhat normally.
Fixing the Nvidia thingā¦ I am at a loss, at the moment.
No worries. You shouldnāt worry too much even if it all gets borked. This was fresh installed last night and even if it gets messed up, reinstall is pretty simple. Though seemingly a nuclear option, the amount of time it takes is not too bad. And itās not like I didnāt try 5 different installs before even getting to a working GUI.
In software updater, it lists it now as c67 (geforce7150/nforce630m) but the nvidia legacy binary driver and the x. org x server nouveau display driver are still grayed out and only manually installed driver is selectable.
Thank you so much for trying. I realize this took a lot of your time. Itās a lot farther than I would have gotten on my own by now. Iāll leave this up for anyone who might have additional ideas.
This is greyed out, as well?
I have been working this entire time and since the page autoreloads when a reply is issued, it was easy to monitor.
Here, Iāll take a screenie:
It says manually installed driver. Did you install any Nvidia drivers manually?
Looking into it, it seems the 304 driver is not supported on Ubuntu 18.04, on which Zorin 15 is based.
I wouldnāt have known how.
Can you link me where you get that info, so I can see what version of ubuntu does support it and figure out where to go from there? Thank you for checking, wouldnāt have occurred to me that backward compatibility would be an issue at all.
Found this thread where one post seems to have a workaround though not sure itāll work for me. Iāll attempt to follow the instructions, see if it applies to me and where I get:
Otherwise someone mentioned Debian still supports it so I could try another distro too.
Again, suggestions welcome
Sadly, from Nvidia, not from Debian or Ubuntu.
I do not know how leading this is, though.
Other pages I found:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/bbc1kx/ubuntu_1804_nvidia_driver_wont_load/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
We tried a great deal of that- but maybe you will spot something new.
So if youāre still reading this, I tried powering through the solution on the link I listed, and it all worked fine until I got to the point where Iām supposed to log out and then bring up the terminal with ctrl+alt+F1. I log out, I press it but absolutely nothing happens. I donāt know if this is because this is an hp media pc and something else was mapped to those keys by default (not that I remember), and then they just donāt work properly on linux as a result or if this is something I have to first enable on my system somehow or if this just isnāt supposed to work with zorinos. Do you know by any chance what this could be?