Aaaah, the joys of distro hopping, "Ok yeah I had this specific issues in X, I heard if I jump to Y, those are fixed, so there I go!", and you land in Y, and those specific issues are indeed solved, but now you have another set of specific issues
yeah for some reason it wouldn't run when launched from the GUI until after I'd run it from console at least once. Never had a problem since, even after updates, etc. No idea why though (admittedly I didn't try to find out, I just chalked it up to 'shit's being weird' and went on with my day)
Dumb question, the installer didn't save my hostname, and /etc/hostname is random gibberish. Can I clear that out and set what I want, or is there a more official way?