I’m gonna include the edits in above post:
Well, it works for me, it’s just the reboot/shotdown that doesn’t (and small bugs here and there, kinda expected from wayland+nvidia at the moment.
I was looking into THIS but wanted to fix the other things first, besides, from what I have read, even if I run sddm in wayland it will still change tty on login judging from the comments on THIS.
Yes.
Is the device internal or USB connected?
Internal, connected to SATA.
Have you tried to unmount the device before shutdown - if that makes a difference?
I have not, I will try that.
Network shares may try to unmount after network is disconnected which will cause a hang.
Now that you mention it, I sometimes use a different wifi because it has higher speeds, and if I switch that without disconnecting the smb share (its only available on the first network) manjaro acts suuuuuuper sluggy until I umount the smb drive, and when restarting then, it has never failed, but it takes a loooong time. I will look into this.
Is there a way to force unmounting before network interface disconnection?