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.

Update:
I was able to "startx" into my de.
So all is not lost

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.

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 ;)

Try using the good old Ubuntu. I wanted something else, but this works best, soo...

@Artemix I got xserver problems there. Ubuntu is the most stable for me.

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... 🐧🔫

@poster983 my friend if you have 30 free minutes make yourself a clean Archlinux install.

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.

@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.

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

@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

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...

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? ☺

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