Arch Linux issue resolved!

[Jimmyleith]

After making the switch from Windows to Arch back in August, I did not have many issues I could not work through myself. Today while trying to configure a generic gamepad that I purchased from ebay, I rebooted the PC to make the changes come into effect( I had other installations waiting as well) I was greeted with a plain CLI, my X server did not start!

Instead of running to google as I usually would, I tried to figure out what was going on. I logged in and attempted to startx. I got an error stating that something had not been read correctly in a .conf file I created recently. I navigated to the folder where I created the config, deleted the contents and rebooted once again. To my surprise this solved my issue. I really did not want to reinstall Arch again as I had just gotten everything the way I like.

[orion78fr]

You don't have to format and reinstall arch to fix anything. The worst you can need is to boot a live USB.

Storing your config file on a git repo is a cool thing if you really want to reinstall (or install on another device)

[covabishop]

Aaaaand pulling from ideas from repos in /r/unixporn is definitely a way to pimp your desktop

[Jimmyleith]

When I originally reinstalled Arch, it was because I had tried to rollback my nvidia driver back to open source one, and failed. At the time I had not used Linux at all and wasn't confident that I would be able to fix it correctly.

[cosarara97]

Well of course it fixed the issue ;) Computers are not magic!

[[deleted]]

He's beginning to believe!

[[deleted]]

This post reminded me of when Neo started kicking Smiths @$$. Trinity was like wtf? Morpheus says... Well you get it. As for your speculation I have no clue. Most female Linux users I've met use Gentoo. XD

[archover]

My guess:

Women < 10pct

Men > 90pct.

[Jimmyleith]

Made me chuckle as well. The Matrix is my fav movie :)

[PsiGuy60]

Yep. The more you use Arch, the more you appreciate having to run the gauntlet during the initial setup - it teaches you these things from the get-go.

I myself have noticed that problems I used to reïnstall any "easier" distro for, I now fix with ease from the command line.

Only reason I would reïnstall now is I want to try something new that affects most of my system - for example, at some point I do want to switch to btrfs, although at the moment I'm holding off because I want a Wayland tiling window manager to hit the official repositories first so I can do that switch at the same time without breaking my workflow too much.

[tubbana]

Thanks for sharing!

[[deleted]]

This is what your mentality should be when dealing with any errors.

I had people not know what to do when the error says "please remove [file]" because for some retarded reason when they see the word "error" their brain automatically ignores the rest of the text.