@patcybermindà0turns out when something stops working on arch its fairly easy to fix it, the slicer i use (cura) didnt want to open the file manager to import stls and this fixed it!
@Kieran0had a #purplebubble meeting which was awesome! also got my arch install back up and running!
@zrl0Got Nix on Debian running within WSL2. Playing around with moving to Windows as my main OS with most work happening within WSL2 via Emacs shelling out to it.