Can I switch to proprietary drivers with a GPU and a CPU with integrated graphics?

Edit. My bad, didn’t realise PARTTYPE was showing.

You have four duplicate UUIDs for your root volume. Everything else also has a duplicate. It’s like partitions were randomly copied all over the place.

I have no idea how you were booting before. Even if you remove the HDD, you got two same UUIDs for your ext4 root partition.
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I removed the Linux partitions on the HDD and will now reinstall Manjaro on the SSD.

/dev/sdb1  gpt    de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac ntfs     Windows recovery environment
and
/dev/sdb5  gpt    de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac ntfs     Windows recovery environment

/dev/sdb2  gpt    c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b vfat     EFI System
and
/dev/sdb7  gpt    c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b vfat     EFI System

/dev/sdb4  gpt    ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 ntfs     Microsoft basic data
and
/dev/sdb6  gpt    ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 ntfs     Microsoft basic data

these are also identical (duplicates)

I didn’t notice that, interesting!
They do have different sizes however. I don’t think I need to mess with that and I will let Windows be Windows on the HDD.
I am using Linux 99.9 % of the time and I will be happy with a clean Manjaro installation.

The Linux kernel cannot tell apart partitions with identical UUIDs.
I’m pretty sure the same applies to Windows.

The only thing you can expect from this is pure random behavior and chaos.

assign new UUIDs so that each one is unique

I used blkid to get the UUIDs of the partitions and figured out that the third column of the lsblk output is not the UUID of the partition but of the partition type. All partitions of a certain type have the same partition type UUID. E.g. every EFI system partition has the partition type UUID c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b (see here for a table showing the UUIDs of different partition types).

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But your posted output stated the command

which, of course, does not even list the UUID

lsblk -f
for instance, would show that

and
blkid
without parameters would also look different

nice confusion :sunglasses:

They’re PARTTYPE UUIDs…they’re the same because they’re the same type.

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My system is up and running again. I was even able to keep my home partition so it immediately felt like home again.
Even though no graphics driver seemed to be installed (at least that’s what mhwd -li said) at first. I then ran mhwd -a pci free 0300 to install free drivers and everything seems to work just fine.
I present to you, a much cleaner system than before:

david-ssd% mhwd -li
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          video-linux            2024.05.06                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!
david-ssd% lsblk -o PATH,PTTYPE,PARTTYPE,FSTYPE,PARTTYPENAME
PATH      PTTYPE PARTTYPE                             FSTYPE PARTTYPENAME
/dev/sda  gpt                                                
/dev/sda1 gpt    0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 ext4   Linux filesystem
/dev/sda2 gpt    0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e5-0933c84b4f4f swap   Linux swap
/dev/sda3 gpt    0fc63daf-8483-4772-8e79-3d69d8477de4 ext4   Linux filesystem
/dev/sda4 gpt    c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b vfat   EFI System
/dev/sdb  gpt                                                
/dev/sdb1 gpt    de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac ntfs   Windows recovery environment
/dev/sdb2 gpt    c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b vfat   EFI System
/dev/sdb3 gpt    e3c9e316-0b5c-4db8-817d-f92df00215ae        Microsoft reserved
/dev/sdb4 gpt    ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 ntfs   Microsoft basic data
/dev/sdb5 gpt    de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac ntfs   Windows recovery environment
/dev/sdb6 gpt    c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b vfat   EFI System
/dev/sdb7 gpt    ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7 ntfs   Microsoft basic data

It feels awesome to have a working GUI again.
Thank you all for your help!

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I’m very happy for you!

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