I'm probably jumping to conclusions, but Nvidia?
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Yes it is
I explicitly bought an AMD CPU and GPU and did not have any trouble with both of them ever since
God, nearly every time I Google a problem I have, it's NVIDIA. The rest is that I want to share my steam library from my windows-installation on a NTFS drive
Nvidia Arch user here, are you just forgetting to rebuild your kernel modules after a kernel or nvidia driver update?
You can just add a pacman hook that triggers mkinitcpio -P
after the linux or nvidia packages are updated. I've never had a no-GUI situation from a stray update... maybe one or two that were my own doing when trying to set up UKI's though.
The Arch Linux team releases Nvidia updates at the same time as kernel upgrades which should trigger a initramfs rebuild via mkinitcpio anyway
unless you do a partial upgrade anyway (never do that)
I just followed the note that's mentioned on the top of your link and installed the Nvidia driver as dkms package. I originally did that because of trouble with a new driver version and temporary downgrading is much smoother with dkms.
Also never had issues with the DE starting properly after upgrade since then.
Just learn how to do everything in the TTY. GUIs are bloat
I already did, but wobbly windows is my love!
Somebody needs to make a wobbly terminal
If that comes out I'll buy a wobbly monitor, with a wobbly keyboard to make the set complete
You don't have to wait, just use LSD...
I love Linux Subsystem for Drugs!
Don't bother with the tty. If experienced chess players can play entire games in their heads, why can't you just do the same to use a computer? Just type away and use your superior power usering skills to visualize the output in your head.
When the rolling release is a rolling release: D:
I want it rolling in updates. Not rolling into the river and drowning itself.
What did you edited ? Arch user here, never had this kind of issue. Also if you managed to install Arch, you should be able to fix it(maybe you switched from terminals, try ctrl+alt+1-9)
You were just lucky. For some of us ut was just about having the wrong hardware at the wrong time.
Not complaining, I knew the risks going in and still love my distro, but arch updates totally can brick a PC with no PEBCAK involved. It does happen. :3
Sounds like a skill issue. Some people just don’t know how to use Arch.
Signed,
Someone who has spent more days reinstalling Arch than using it.
Probably running an older nvidia driver. That usually blows up during an update.
Why are you using arch Linux if not to debug your system though?
There's a difference between "can" and "want." For example, OP might have been planning to watch his home vids with your mom, but couldn't due to a rolling update.
Join the NixOS side! I almost never get a broken boot, and if I do, I can always rollback and debug my config when I have time.
Just curious before distro-hopping.
What functionality does the reproducibility of nixOS serve to a user (like me) with only one desktop. Like I won't be installing the same system multiple times, I understand the 'predictable-ness' of a declarative system. But are there some other advantages?
I find it useful to not have to remember how I set things up when I last touched it months ago. You can do really ricey tweaks if you want to, without worrying about breaking the whole system, or having to set it all up again if you have to reinstall.
I work in Devops, so being able to track my system in git is insanely useful for maintainability.
The fact that NixOS has fearless bleeding edge is just a plus; Being able to install the latest packages before Arch even gets them, without worrying if something will break.
well arch moment, you could use snapshots or ostree to rollback if something like that happen
I usually just do a full reinstall, it's faster, requires less storage, and it's more futureproof. I have my home folder at a different partition, so the files aren't a problem. Archinstall made this a lot easier, and i love it.
It's the second time sddm broke for me in the space of a week
I just disabled its service for now and am launching plasma manually.
Speaking of -- Plasma 6 hooray!
As long as I can get into the terminal I can fix the GUI. What really sucks is when it something that runs in the DM init sequence was using Python but a Python upgrade changed the import path and no it keeps restarting and I need to boot from a USB to disable that service so I can log into something and properly fix it.
Pass something stupid via your bootloader so it aborts boot and dumps you in an initrd busybox shell. No usb required.
This was my poor man's boot environments when I was using zfs on root. I had a pacman hook to snapshot before package transactions, then if it became unbootable I'd interrupt the following boot attempt, edit my grub command line with something wrong so I'd get dumped in the busybox shell, import my zfs pool and roll back before finally rebooting again.
🦎 Tumbly bumbles
Time to switch to NixOS!