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1 <h3>Manjaro Sucks (Linux these days...)</h3> 2 3 <p> 4 Created: Oct 31, 2021 Last Updated: Feb 7, 2022 5 </p> 6 7 <p> 8 Friend of mine installed M*njaro Linux about a year ago and hasn't used it since. 9 He called me for help when his system just failed to boot. Being a Linux user for 10 many years I thought it would be pretty easy to diagnose and fix the issue, especially 11 since my friend is a Linux noob and so would most likely have a stock, unconfigured install. 12 </p> 13 14 <p> 15 To make this post brief I'll just say that debugging the system took hours because 16 of various annoyances and bizzare idiosyncrasies. There was no boot output because the 17 Linux kernel is called with "quiet" option. This one is baffling to me because there's 18 no downside to seeing the kernel's boot messages but every distro turns them off by 19 default these days. I guess they're afraid of scaring the normies. 20 </p> 21 22 <p> 23 Also the Linux kernel and Nvidia drivers are managed seperately from other packages. 24 This I'm pretty sure caused the problem in the first place. Something nvidia related 25 got updated but the driver did not. This caused a black screen, but the system kept 26 trying to restart X over and over, so not even switching to a different TTY worked. 27 We were able to fix the problem by getting Linux to use the free noveau drivers via 28 GRUB. From there, we were able to fix Manjaro's package issues. 29 </p> 30 31 <p> 32 Manjaro's bizzare way of managing the kernel has casued me problems as well. Years ago, 33 when trying manjaro for the first time, my system became unbootable because my kernel was 34 updated but Linux-Firmware was not... very normie friendly! 35 </p> 36