I’ve figured out that the exact thing that was preventing my Gnome from starting was accessibility toolkit and screen magnifier (the same thing that was making my desktop choppy before the recent upgrade).
@ferdinan maybe it’s the same thing for you? Maybe you could:
- boot from a live USB and chroot into your system (you could follow the steps from this article)
- when you’re “chrooted” in in the shell, switch to your user with
su <your user name> - run
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface toolkit-accessibility false - run
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-magnifier-enabled false
I think any option/tool that resides under the accessibility toolkit that’s enabled (check gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications) will enable the accessibility toolkit on Gnome’s start, so they all need to be disabled.