I know that it's rolling release, but 4 times this year seems a bit much

I'm probably jumping to conclusions, but Nvidia?

Nvidia Arch user here, are you just forgetting to rebuild your kernel modules after a kernel or nvidia driver update?

You can just add a pacman hook that triggers mkinitcpio -P after the linux or nvidia packages are updated. I've never had a no-GUI situation from a stray update... maybe one or two that were my own doing when trying to set up UKI's though.

Me looking from openSUSE Tumbleweed:

Just learn how to do everything in the TTY. GUIs are bloat

When the rolling release is a rolling release: D:

What did you edited ? Arch user here, never had this kind of issue. Also if you managed to install Arch, you should be able to fix it(maybe you switched from terminals, try ctrl+alt+1-9)

Why are you using arch Linux if not to debug your system though?

Can I talk to you about our Lord and Savior Tumbleweed?

Join the NixOS side! I almost never get a broken boot, and if I do, I can always rollback and debug my config when I have time.

well arch moment, you could use snapshots or ostree to rollback if something like that happen

🦎 Tumbly bumbles

It's the second time sddm broke for me in the space of a week

I just disabled its service for now and am launching plasma manually.

Speaking of -- Plasma 6 hooray!

As long as I can get into the terminal I can fix the GUI. What really sucks is when it something that runs in the DM init sequence was using Python but a Python upgrade changed the import path and no it keeps restarting and I need to boot from a USB to disable that service so I can log into something and properly fix it.

Arch neats on suicide watch

Time to switch to NixOS!

Let me guess, KDE Plasma 6 happened? ^^