Unable to boot after removing Plymouth

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I remember this worked for several people in the past.

Plymouth boot screen bug

I'm fairly sure of this (I've never dealt with the encrypt stuff) as I am a disliker of Plymouth. Step one is to uninstall plymouth. Then disable sddm-plymouth - from a console, not a terminal app. Stopping sddm will also halt your desktop. systemctl stop sddm-plymouth.service systemctl disable sddm-plymouth.service and enable sddm, systemctl enable sddm.service and on reboot plymouth should be gone. You may want to remove 'quiet' from your kernel parameters (if it's there). HTH