One or two recent updates to the 470xx nvidia drivers on Arch partially broke my system. Since the most recent fix, I have the packages on hold so that they don't ever get updated again. I just want them to work from here on....
Most recently I updated nvidia drivers on Arch & failed to read the output printed to the terminal. Next time I turned on the computer I was left with the dreaded blinking cursor due to a driver issue. My graphics card had just switched from the main nvidia driver to 470xx & I had failed to notice. Installing the correct driver fixed the problem & I was once again able to boot. Previously way back in like 2002'ish I got a second monitor for my setup & tried manually configuring it. Had a number of unsuccessful boots, before I finally got it working....
While I've nothing against neofetch, I prefer to use my own fetch because it needs little to no maintenance and has everything I need. I actually think that maintaining a neofetch config might actually be more work in the long run. Anyway.. I'm using plain old Bash for my shell prompt. I've just customized it using nerd fonts (see one of my other comments on this post for the command)....
Thankfully I've never had that happen, but if it did I would probably just switch to a tty & use the killall command on whatever was giving me bother....
One or two recent updates to the
470xxnvidia drivers on Arch partially broke my system. Since the most recent fix, I have the packages on hold so that they don't ever get updated again. I just want them to work from here on....