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    [โ€“] Rootiest@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    mostly because it just stopped at a terminal I couldn't input anything on, so I had to figure out that I could open up a new one that would actually let me log in and reinstall gnome

    Ctrl + Alt + F3

    [โ€“] bastian_5@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    The problem was more that I didn't even know what I was looking at. It just stopped at a screen with terminal output from it booting up, so I thought it was just stuck... After a bit I found something on an arch forum that mentioned opening up a new terminal instance (or something like that), and how to do it, which led me to realize that gnome got uninstalled.

    Once I figured that out it only took 5 minutes to fix, but I only found that after an hour of assuming that it was frozen and trying to fix that.