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  • What laptop is it? On some, not many, you can remove the dgpu. If you can access the bios, it wouldn’t hurt to see if you can set priority order for the gpu used. What do you mean you can’t get past choosing the installation medium? To me that means the usb, iso, etc you are using. I’m probably misunderstanding you, but do you mean selecting the medium in the bios boot screen? Or have you gotten to the part where grub shows up and you can select install. If it’s the bios bit, have you turned off secure boot? If it’s after selecting install arch in the grub menu, wait a tiny bit for everything to load and try pressing ctrl-alt-F3. Doesn’t have to be F3 you can try all the “F” keys. This will switch to a different tty to try and see if the default one is being weird Though I doubt that will help, but worth a shot. If you can get to grub have you tried to disable the kernel module that loads for the dgpu? You should be able to press “e” to go to the bit you can edit stuff in grub. Check out this and see if it helps https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_module#Using_kernel_command_line_2 Best of luck!





  • You want bleeding edge but are moving to Ubuntu 20.04, which was released in 2019 with a 2025 EOL? No DE from that release’s repo will be bleeding edge. You can manually install the newest releases of software you want, but that’s not really a “just works” solution either. You’ll run into dependency hell at some point. I’m not really sure what you’re going for. But as far as a stable DE goes, and if that is the main concern as implied in the title, XFCE has been pretty darn solid for me.






  • Yay keeps a cache of packages to help building go a bit faster. Sometimes it can cause issues if things have changed that the cached build system can’t detect. Clean build removes the cached files and re-downloads everything to install. None means don’t clean build, all means all listed packages that need upgrading. don’t know about installed vs installed I never used those flags. The numbers correspond to the number by the package if you want to only select specific ones.