#10 Both nvidia and non-nvidia versions of salient os won't successfully boot from USB media on my Dell Inspiron 15 7577 Gaming laptop

[Spherical Umbra]

Hi silent-robot,

First of all, thank you very much for your work in Salient OS! As a gamer it looks to be a really promising derivative of arch-linux for gaming and I'm really looking forward to have my hands on it after I gave it a short try using vmware player.

That said, I am having trouble making salient-os boot up properly on my machine. So far so good I haven't encountered any problems booting other linux distros like mx-linux, pop! OS, Feren OS, and etc.

Machine specs:
- i7 7th Gen - i7-7700HQ CPU (Hyperthreading disabled)
- 12 GB Worth of RAM (my two ram sticks are unidentical)
- VGA Compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 591b (rev 04)
Laptop runs on switchable graphics so the one responsible for booting linux is the Intel HD Graphics
- 128 GB M.2 SSD
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile (rev a1)
Untouched until linux settings have been tailored to use this GPU thanks to swtichable graphics

Things I've tried:
- Booting normally but ends up with just a blank black screen
- Booting with nomodeset using non-nvidia flavor of salient but ends up with Light Display Manager recursively Starting -> Started -> Stopped infinitely for some reason. It does this until "Reached target Multi-user System" shows up before coming to a full halt/freeze.
- Booting with "nomodeset acpi=off" boot options using nvidia flavor of salient. The same thing happens but the difference is that:
1. The recursive light display manager startup actually comes to the point of "[FAILED] Failed to start Light Display Manager."
2. Some stuff successfully starts until the next thing that fails is "Wait for network to be Configured" (explained at bottom why).
3. Some stuff successfully starts again until the next thing that fails is Samba NMB Daemon
4. Reached target Multi-User System. Reached target Graphical Interface.
5. Nothing happens after... Not even the GUI, tried switching through ttys using CTRL + ALT + F keys but sadly nothing happens with that too

As for why I don't connect my laptop to router during startup, it's because I discovered that my ISP has been compromised by an APT(advanced persistent threat) actor and even if I report this nobody takes me seriously so I have no choice but to ensure I am fulled firewalled and openvpn ready to fire as soon as internet is up.

[Silent Robot]

Did you try nomodeset edd=off ???

[Spherical Umbra]

[Spherical Umbra]

Problem's been solved and I have been happily using your distro Sir Silent Robot
Many thanks for this amazing distro!