Well, you might’ve entered the password incorrectly a few times, and then faiilock faillocked the account. Can be fixed by going to another tty (e.g. Ctrl+alt+f3), logging in as root and faillock --reset --user your_username_here. If that doesn’t help, that’s probably neon’s issue (mb they messed up pam stuff or something).
On a side note, KDE neon is not exactly stable for daily driving, I’d suggest switching to another distro that’s not meant for testing recent KDE stuff
Kinda follows from the description on their website:
You should use KDE neon if you are an adventurous KDE enthusiast who wants the latest and greatest from the KDE community as soon as it’s available, with no delays, opinionated patches, or UX changes.
Although, yap, I may’ve put it a bit too harshly, and the same may be applicable to using KDE on many rolling release distros.
To be fair, the only problem I had while using it (except for the usual need to add a ppa to install literally anything) was exactly the same I encountered on arch: sddm just died after some updates and refused to start. What made it worse, however, was that they decided it was a great idea to configure the same keyboard layouts both for the graphical session and tty, so I couldn’tc even login to fix it :/
Yeah i woyld have entered right the second time. Numlock was off and it is a simple pass. The best i can tell is kde issued a buggy update to their de. Thats why the logon screen looked different and why issueing an update comand fixed it but reset my desktop settings.
Definitely time to just use debian, mint MX, or pop os even. I did a lot of hopping though and I’ve settled on Nobara KDE. Mint was great but the Bluetooth was finicky for some reason, and debian is mostly just ubuntu with some gui stuff removed. PopOS is basically just debian until COSMIC but still good too.
Some software is OK to install manually and natively, like Wordpress or Nextcloud, they require some things to get together but those two are just standard PHP apps after all.
But Jackett and Sonarr are software made of much more moving parts. And actually are quite badly packaged (if packaged at all). Their creators see manual install as ment mostly for developers while end user is expected to use containers.
Like other have said, learn Docker and Docker Compose (or overall containers). You’ll be able to spin up such services with just one line (or with just simple declaration in compose.yaml file). But don’t copy-paste, learn it because it’s worth it.
If you really really get stuck, there also is Yunohost, a Debian based system with web GUI and one click install scripts for selfhosted stuff. But it won’t be as nearly flexible and portable (moving between servers, having multiple disks, configurable backups…) like Docker, there is a reason why shipping server-grade software looks like that so don’t be mad at Linux, because on other systems installing scalable, server-grade things would look the same :P.
Ubuntu LTS is based on Debian Unstable branch, funnily. So you can probably try Debian Testing or Unstable branches, if Stable is too hardcore for you. I daily drive Bookworm Stable on 2 machines and it is fantastic. I use it with a few Flatpaks and Appimages.
The XZ malicious package did not get pushed to Stable branch, which is one of the reasons why I prefer updating late rather than being an idiot obsessed with consooming updates released 5 minutes ago. I always wait for updates, vet them, read forums and changelogs before hitting the green button.
I like this distro a lot and want to learn about it. I’m actually using Bazzite rn.
But this format isn’t really grabbing me. It is actually kinda killing me inside. Like being at work peer programming when the other person has control of the inputs.
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