Claudio Ramirez: Post-it: how to revive X on Ubuntu after nvidia kills it

I am not a hug fan of the Linux Nvidia drivers*, but once in a while I try them to check the performance of the machine. More often than not, I end up in a console and no X/Wayland.

I have seen some Ubuntu users reinstalling their machine after this f* up, so here my notes to fix it (I always forget the initramfs step and end up wasting a lot of time):

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge nvidia-*
$ sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_pre-nvidia
$ sudo update-initramfs -u
$ reboot

*: I am not a fan of the Windows drivers either now that Nvidia decided to harvest emails and track you if you want updates.