True people only use i3 or the-other-i3-for-wayland

/s, of course. But still my personal choice

Thank you for explanation :) I suspected something like that - mess up with some internals, you do have a chance to bring the thing down. Which is why I always have a bootable usb around before doing anything risky

Uhm, zero? With ten years of using Linux? What did you do to fuck up the damn kernel? o_O