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I used to love Linux.
Now I hate it. I'm moving back to windows.

6th fixing time it's done this to me. When I try to login it just sends me right back to the login screen.
CTRL +ALT +F2 let's me login?!

Ugg I have a school paper to write.

So.. I moving back to the dark side.

This is what I get for trying out arch I guess.

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  • 1
    Update:
    I was able to "startx" into my de.
    So all is not lost
  • 0
    Windows has its quirks as well.
    After some coding (VS) the only working key is esc(minimizing currently focused app).
    A reboot fixes it.
    Happens on borg w7 and w10.
  • 1
    Safety first: remove this logger (that didn't detect your Desktop Environment it seems) and fall back to the good old startx. When you'll be less in a hurry, try to check what's going on with the bad boy ;)
  • 3
    Try using the good old Ubuntu. I wanted something else, but this works best, soo...
  • 0
    @Artemix I got xserver problems there. Ubuntu is the most stable for me.
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    Yeah Linux is a bit of a rebellious penguin. S/He(don't assume folks!)

    You really have to find the right distro.

    Because startx still works, I won't move, but if Manjaro pulls something like this again... 🐧🔫
  • 0
    @poster983 my friend if you have 30 free minutes make yourself a clean Archlinux install.
  • 3
    U serious? Something does not work in f*cking Arch and you are done with Linux?
    Pro-Tip: Install a usable distro. Like Ubuntu. Or Suse. Or Fedora. Or every other distro except f*cking Arch.
  • 2
    @GreenHat here's the ironic thing. I've used Ubuntu as my main go-to os for a long time (3 years).
    It sounds like @Artemix and I have had the same problems with ubuntu. After 6 or 7 updates, startx refuses to run.

    The reason I'm pissed is that I moved to Manjaro to see if it would work better(it did. I installed it last year in may.) But, I over reacted a bit. Oh well.

    Luckily, with this Manjaro install, I was able to recover. And found the problem (probably).

    So all is not lost!

    Also, I tried fedora a few years ago and I hated it. But I was new to linux and a very nieve.(and still am) I should try it again.
  • 0
    Had same problem twice, on one occasion I was able to fix it by installing updates though the updates were not downloading at once, I had to go through many cycles of typing update command and restarting pc just to find whole update wasn't downloaded. This happened when I tried to install kde 5.8 version on Kubuntu
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    @poster983 did you check out the journal? Sounds like its got a problem running the xinitrc. I'm guessing its because you have an encrypted home but thats just an guess from startx working
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    If you are not comfortable with routinely fixing your OS, don't use "bleeding edge" distros but more stable ones like Ubuntu.

    There's a reason why they're rolling out updates slower...
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    using arch linux for about 2 1/2 years on some raspis and odroids, my workstation, nas and laptop and never had a real problem that wasn't related to my own stupidity.
    am i just a lucky guy? ☺
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    If you take your time to install plain arch manually you are probably never ever going to run in a problem which isn't solved by 10 minutes of research. Whereas I cannot say that for Ubuntu, Fedora, Opensuse, Debian, gentoo, Manjaro and the likes...
    Had some very strange problems with all of these and you never know what just broke.
    And I have never had a problem with Arch so far except of me messing up the UUIDs in the fstab :D
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