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Anyone who tells you that gaming on Linux isn't somewhat experimental is lying. I think it's getting there, though.
I mean, OPs distro choice didn't help here:
If you want Arch with actual training wheels you probably want Manjaro or at least a SteamOS fork like Chimera/HoloISO.
It probably would have been much smoother with an actual beginner friendly distro like Nobara and Bazzite, or possibly Mint/Pop for a more classic desktop experience.
It's not perfect and still has woes but OP fell for Arch with a fancy graphical installer, it still comes with the expectation of the user being able to maintain an Arch install.
Yeah, OP definitely played hard mode lol
I just updated gdm-prime on Manjaro to 46.0, when gnome shell is 45.6, and now gdm keeps crashing on startup.
gnome-shell is at 46.1. Also, gdm-prime is AUR so it's not supported.
This is one of those problems that Manjaro fans on Lemmy keep telling me are impossible.
I am on EndeavourOS and gnome-shell is on 46.1-2. gdm-prime is on 46.0-1. Everything would work fine using gdm-prime from the AUR.
The issue is that Manjaro holds back the packages in core and extra for weeks but the packages in the AUR are up-to-date ( and expect the version numbers found in Arch ). So you have this incompatibility.
You may find a newer version of gnome-shell in the AUR but, if you do, you may find that the Manjaro package never catches up and you are stuck with an AUR version forever, or worse, end up with packages that cannot be upgraded one the one in the AUR gets abandoned.
In my opinion, using Manjaro is “hard mode” much more than EndeavourOS is for exactly these kinds of reasons.
I fixed the problem by updating gnome-shell with the terminal
It's gotten a lot better, particularly for Steam games, but yeah, there's still some way to go.