Manjaro Cinnamon boots into black screen

First and foremost ensure your system is up-to-date

sudo pacman -Syu

As it is now it could be you are using Nvidia as the primary driver - so for the iGPU to be primary at boot I suggest you ensure you have the hybrid driver installed.

You can verify if this is the case by listing installed drivers

mhwd -li

If the list do not contain video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime please sync it

sudo mhwd -i pci video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime

If you are not a gamer - you may only be needing Nvidia in edge cases - and for that you can use envycontrol. Not having Nvidia as the primary GPU will also extend the battery life.

sudo pacman -Syu envycontrol

To utilize the Nvidia card for a certain application or game - use primerun <appname> to launch it.

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