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This is correct reasoning. "Do I want to get to the bottom of this? I don't gain anything except the knowledge. Nope, not today. Let's just reinstall."
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This is the mindset of people who think that speedy installers are worthwhile.
Froggy Fresh Sextape
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Oh this shit has been going on longer than that. It didn't survive the transition to Wayland very well. I have no idea why it is included in the desktop iso
Just disable it.
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Well he's back.. but looking at his video list, I can guess immediately why he was accidentally identified as a notorious Japanese copyright violator.
What's this video without a thumbnail?
Let's mouse over it... Ohhhh....
Don't use an anime background on your desktop and then complain about getting righteously struck down by Gujurati mecha-hitler, you fucking weeb.
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When I update KDE I am always reminded of how devs and testers of KDE clearly dev & test everything on laptops because multi monitor stuff always breaks in some way
Don't have those keyboard issues personally. Only problem I had was a single weird plasma crash due to too many objects or something that hasn't happened since, some Edit Mode stuff and a known regression where you can't place desktop icons on monitors other than your primary one. None of these are desktop breaking bugs though, for instance I don't really use desktop icons anymore so I might as well remove them entirely tbh. It's also known and will be fixed. For a KDE update this one has been rather trouble-free for me. But YMMV.TBF, that has been my experience on any OS . I reinstall my Windows partition too when shit just gets sluggish after a while for no reason. Always fixes it. It's the same with driver issues on Windows, I uninstall the driver and reinstall. Always fixes whatever bullshit was dragged in with any driver update. So yes, this approach works on all levels.
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This is prime example why Linux isn't popular over normies these days.
They will install any popular distro they find to be classy or use other adjective for why they are special. In any case, to answer the problem here you would need to share a log of said display manager and understand what display manager is, how to configure it and so on.
I f*cking despise people installing not-so-straightforward distribution unaware the basics of Linux. There should be a test prior the downloading, like name few folders that are found in every distribution and I guarantee you it would sway 80% of people from installing any Linux distro.
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Even as a former Windows user, I never did this. If you're preparing to do so anyway, why not create a backup point and avoid a complete reinstall? Get the necessary drivers and pre-configured programs that you're going to install anyway and save the snapshot for later.
How do you even manage to brick your system trying to change an autostart setting for your display manager?
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I myself prefer having a clean slate when I install a new OS or reinstall. That's one of the reasons I eventually bailed on Nix, I don't really care about being able to reproduce my entire setup. A default archinstall usually gets me to where I want my computing to be anyways. Maybe I am old fashioned in that aspect. I have everything backed up anyways to my own server boxes so I don't lose anything by nuking my installs. As for why do it, after long periods of use I feel some stuff become slower for whatever reason. Maybe it's what I am doing or my setup, but it is definitely apparent. After I reinstall it goes away. I could spend hours troubleshooting as to why it happens on 3-4 year old installs, but as @analrapist said, it's probably not worth the effort.
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Idk. I think it is worth the effort. If it's a reoccurring issue.
Like learning how to chroot into a system that doesn't boot for some reason. Generally a bootloader issue, and fixing that. Instead of reinstalling. The first time, it seems daunting. But after knowing what to do. If I have a system that for some reason doesn't boot. At most I'm going to spend a couple minutes. Booting from another drive mounting chrooting, and probably just reinstalling grub or something along those lines.
The point is. It's beneficial long term I think to make yourself deal with this stuff. Then if you notice it in the future, you can easily deal with it.
Like learning how to chroot into a system that doesn't boot for some reason. Generally a bootloader issue, and fixing that. Instead of reinstalling. The first time, it seems daunting. But after knowing what to do. If I have a system that for some reason doesn't boot. At most I'm going to spend a couple minutes. Booting from another drive mounting chrooting, and probably just reinstalling grub or something along those lines.
The point is. It's beneficial long term I think to make yourself deal with this stuff. Then if you notice it in the future, you can easily deal with it.
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I don't think a regular system snapshot even comes close to the autism of Nix or Guix. Relevant for Windows if you're too lazy to install all the software again by hand like me, a lot less relevant for Linux because of how programs are packaged. Re-visiting a two year old snapshot would probably break the system during an upgrade.
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My general position is, if you're restoring a snapshot more than a few months old, you're doing it for reasons that would speak against running any upgrades.
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Sluggishness after years of use can be a recurring issue for many setups for a variety of opaque reasons, I'd imagine most users with it just get used to a number of actions being slightly slower. I only tend to notice it because I switch back and forth a lot, and if you don't you probably wouldn't. The best way to explain this is when you are using a friend's computer and you notice odd small things being slightly sluggier for no reason. Tracking down w/e the issue is on Windows is more tedious than just reinstalling after 4 years of use in my experience.
But for Linux I have opted to just chroot as you say like after GRUB failed with an update. I described doing this ATT w/ SystemRescue earlier in the thread. It's a great tool for this.
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I exaggerate a bit. Really it just couldn't load into the desktop environment or the greeter wasn't installed properly because I missed some step. I don't actually mean that I fucked the system so hard it couldn't boot.
Cut me a break I'm trying. I didn't come here and say Linux is dumb and too complicated. I have some understanding of what the issue is, but acknowledge that it's just a little bit over my head right now. I think that's a pretty dumb take to say you should only be allowed to play with lego bricks until you can prove you can build a house. People have to learn somehow. Otherwise they will continue to use Windows and never try anything new. I understand that the distro I'm using is more advanced than what I really need, but I can say working with Arch based systems has forced me to get more comfortable with using the terminal than Mint ever would. I've only started using Linux at all for a few months so you'll have to forgive me that I'm not a computing wizard.
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Honestly, there's nothing advanced about Arch. I'd caution about using offshoot distros because they like doing things in their own special ways sometimes. Fedora over Bazzite/Nobara, Arch's graphical installer over Manjaro/CachyOS, etc. The only exception is Mint over Debian because of their proprietary/libre software repo separation that includes drivers. With these choices, anything written on the Arch and Debian Wikis applies to your system in one way or another. For example, you can do a postmortem on what you might have missed with this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Display_manager#Loading_the_display_manager
AI answers might also lead you astray. As a preface, this is mostly talking out of my ass because I hardly use ChatGPT and the rest. Before LLMs, looking for solutions to Linux problems sometimes had you fall down the rabbit hole of extremely outdated StackExchange/Reddit posts that were the right solution at the time. Check the links your LLM is sourcing the answers from.
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That's what this thread is for, though.
What prompted you to try it out and ultimately use it as your daily driver?
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I'm not trying to be rude or aggressive so please don't take it this way. But I'm really curious about the mentality of untechnical people who install random distros like Cachy. Going to Cachy's website, I see advertising like this:
Do you understand what everything in this paragraph means, without having to look anything up? If so -- why not compile your own kernel instead of trusting some obscure rando to provide it and your system packages for you? If not, why would you figure that you need anything particular Cachy offers?
I run Gentoo myself, so I compile all my software, including my kernel, with CPU optimizations and LTO where possible, but I don't kid myself about the benefits I (don't) get from it. I genuinely don't understand the use case or selling point for Cachy. LTO and CPU-specific optimizations just plain do not matter for 99% of software (99% of software isn't CPU-bound). LTO can make programs slightly faster to start up and use slightly less memory, but most distros compile their software with it enabled anyway, and use PGO also for big, often slow software like GCC or Firefox or Python. It's nothing unique. The scheduler can make a slight difference in user experience, but users can just change it in any other distro just as well as they can change it in Cachy. Nothing else they advertise seems special either. Cachy offers a wide choice of DE, OK, so does Arch or Ubuntu/Debian/Mint. You can choose between a graphical or command-line install process, OK, just like Arch. But Cachy isn't well-known, it has fewer developers, you're more likely to run into problems and less likely to come across people who can help you. What is the appeal exactly?
I get just messing around and wanting to try new things, if that's it. But non-mainstream distros run by hobbyists are really a lot more likely to have problems and I hope that people keep that in mind when they try them. As someone who would like Linux to become a mainstream alternative to Windows, I get anxious whenever I see normies/recent Linux adopters using and shopping around for random distros like Cachy or Manjaro instead of sticking with stuff like Mint or ElementaryOS or whatever.
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this is 100% true.
T. guy who installed EOS as his first distro over base arch because it came with a gui pre-installed
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This really varies on usage patterns. Gentoo's been more reliable for me than Arch or Debian were, but not by /that/ much. I will continue to shill Artix because it's doing a hard thing (no-systemd) very well and deserves credit for it. Again, another distro I've had better luck with than Arch and Debian, of late. I don't outright disagree with you, but all generalizations are false.