I read it like russia sabotaged the PMs own arson attempt

I agree that manjaro is shit, but “your distro is shit” is not helpful advice for someone who wants to get their graphical session back.

You can also check /var/log/pacman.log for the packages you installed, then pacman -Ql the packages to list what files they might have changed

Classic, never fix anything, just change to , you wouldnt have experienced any problems, ever

Have you checked the log files under /var/log/xorg.0…log?

Also see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Troubleshooting

If you want to get your graphical session back quickly, maybe try setting up GNOME with wayland (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME#Wayland_sessions)

I used to like the idea of nixos because it felt “tidy” to configure everything centrally. However that tidyness is achieved by adding an extra layer which just replicates the configuration options of every program. If there is a bug in that layer or something is just not implemented, either you have to learn the whole inernals of nixos and nixpkgs, for which there is no real documentation, or you have to resort to doing things imperatively again, which is hard because of the opacity of the generated system and also defeats the whole purpose. So basically, you are completely dependent on nixos developers for things you could have easily done yourself on arch.

The thing that’s wrong here is that people use/trust a proprietary web service as if it was a part of public infrastructure.

I switched to Nixos after reading a lot about it and eventually switched back to arch because I didn’t like how hacky everything felt. On the surface it seems really clean because of the central configuration file and the reproducible nature of the whole thing, but in the rare case something doesn’t go as planned, it’s hard to know how to do anything about it. Basically everything that would have been a configuration issue for you to fix, is now a bug. Also, I found no easy way to install software that isn’t in nixpkgs (which is rare, but happens).

More like someone who struggles with social anxiety and low self-esteem