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i haven’t updated yet but disabled Plymouth following these instructions:

How to remove plymouth?

I disabled plymouth and the boot no longer hangs. VM booted normally 20 times in a row. Thanks again. For anybody trying to do this, these are the steps I used. (They combine the “Plymouth - Manjaro” page linked at the top of the original post, cscs’s commands, and Teo on not having to uninstall packages). Remove plymouth hook from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf Line from which to remove plymouth: HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block keyboard keymap consolefont…

upon restart i get the following screen before accessing the desktop(not my screenshot):

any way to hide it?

and i also disabled the Splash screen in KDE(not sure if related)

Edit:
it might be because i removed the “quiet” parameter,but that is what was instructed in the wiki:

Plymouth

can i put it back?

Edit2
it seems that alone it might not be enough:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Silent_boot
i won’t bother with it.