There is no nano editor. I read a few days ago about users who were in trouble because of fallback.
But I couldn’t find it.
I experienced this phenomenon last night.
All I wanted was to fix the fstab,
so I started from another manjaro, mounted the root partition, and edited it.
This is the fastest in my environment.
What was that??
Basically, with kernel 6.12rc bcachefs, even reisub didn’t work. Completely stuck. Many files were lost. fsck finished normally, but 100,000 files in lost+found kept coming back like zombies no matter how many times I deleted them (by su). I reset the user files to zero. . Laughable?
I think you have a few problems - and might be a bit confused about what happened.
the lost+found directory is a feature of ext2/3/4 file systems - but you talk about bcachefs in the same breath
If there are ever files in there, this is because fsck could not fully recover them and puts them there
(I actually never had this happen)
If you then delete those, they are truly lost forever.
nano is - as far as I know - the editor that is installed by default
I can be wrong - it could be vi - it might also be installed.
Not so easy to use for someone not familiar.
Of course everyone is free to remove nano (or anything, really).
Perhaps you did - and are then left without an easy to use command line editor.
Who knows?
To be honest, I find there are friendlier ways of doing this than using nano.
Micro is my favourite terminal editor - and you don’t need to prefix sudo to get access (using polkit, it only needs elevated permissions to save a file, so it’s safer).
pacman -S micro
micro /etc/fstab
Then ctrlg if you want to see keybindings. altg brings up some good help, but it’s intuitive enough to get by without.
I sincerely hope for the sake of your future sanity, that this is kept caged in VMs !! Or not on any of your hardware that you may depend on not launching at ballistic speeds at some point.
I have no issues with Windows; apart from the, well, you know… apps and crap. I’ve had years of experience to tame the beast, so I’m able to workaround privacy issues that most scream about.
The Windows 10/11 GUI is at least more stable than its predecessors. That said, I am still really keen for KDE to finally release a stable DE for Windows.
Apart from Manjaro I also use Debian, MacOS and BSD. None of these are in VMs, however, VMware is admittedly kept rather busy with a selection of other systems and experiments.