initrd=\EFI\Pop_OS-b2504948-3531-4b42-aa83-xxxxxxxxxxxx\initrd.img root=UUID=b2504948-3531-4b42-aa83-xxxxxxxxxxxx ro quiet loglevel=0 systemd.show_status=false splash
Gotcha. Well I guess PopOS (never run into that one before) is doing some kind of magic for you - probably it’s a fork of tge mainline kernel or loading some Nvidia kernel driver using systemd or init scripts or the like or some combo.