[Solved] - Tower's 1st [no, 3rd] Hard-Reset since clean-reinstall.

[rocky7x]

So to sum it up: second splash screen means AFTER filling in the login credentials? If yes, then just Plasma is having difficulties to load. What you can do to test it is this:

Code:

when you get to a stuck splash screen, switch to a tty a issue this command
sudo su (enter sudo pwd)
adduser test (follow prompts to create the user, leave rooms and phones empty)

Now you've created a clean vanilla user. Go to the login screen, select that new user and try to login - if it works, means that your Plasma settings are wrong for the intel driver and we need to fix them.

Deleting the created user can be done with command:

Code:

deluser test (as root, after sudo su)

If the answer to the above question was NO and you don't even get to the login screen, then the X server has troubles starting and that is because of the Nvidia driver. When you installed the Nvidia driver, have you also installed the package nvidia-prime? When you issue command

Code:

sudo prime-select intel

what is the response?