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  • Sure but Xorg has been like that forever and until recently distros started to default Wayland because of Nvidia, and there aren’t many of them yet. Also some programs don’t run well with Xwayland, some don’t run at all. You’re right from a technical privacy point but it’s not the end of the world and it doesn’t have to be privacy-invading, just don’t run proprietary stuff. By the way, CInnamon will switch to Wayland, when the experimental support is mature enough. Don’t know about MATE of XFCE.




  • That’s pretty weird. It’s a live ISO error, you shouldn’t get something like that.

    It’s probably not that but if the filesystem is corrupted you can get weird things. Try this: sudo fsck -f /

    If still no effect, login to LXDE and find cinnamon config files under ~/.config/cinnamon, not sure about the exact location since I don’t use Cinnamon but should be something like that. After finding that, change the name to cinnamon.bak and try login to Cinnamon again. If that’s related to configs, you should be able login.

    You can also try different display manager, it seems you currently have lightdm. For instance, sddm could be an alternative.

    sudo apt install sddm
    sudo systemctl stop lightdm
    sudo systemctl disable lightdm
    sudo systemctl enable sddm
    

    then restart.

    If you want to revert this, just sudo systemctl disable sddm and sudo systemctl enable lightdm. You can remove sddm after the experiment.



  • Purge is used when you want something to be deleted completely, and autoremove is used to clean the rest of the unused dependencies. If those didn’t fix the issue, this could be about your user or user’s home directory. Though the errors indicate a session problem.

    You can try to reset all Cinnamon configuration. dconf reset -f /org/cinnamon/ That will delete everything you changed on Cinnamon so you may want to backup your settings.

    Backup dconf dump /org/cinnamon/ > cinnamon-settings-backup

    Restore dconf load /org/cinnamon/ < cinnamon-settings-backup

    If that still doesn’t work, can you try to add a new user to see if that user can login to Cinnamon? sudo add newuser