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Re:NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Ke... by JasonSage on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @09:42PM (#40991802)
That's interesting, maybe it's hardware-dependent? I'm doing nixos + KDE + Wayland and I've had almost no issues in day-to-day usage and productivity.

I agree with you that there's a lot of bleeding. Linux is nicer than it used to be and there's less fiddling required to get to a usable base, but still plenty of fiddling as you get into more niche usage, especially when it involves any GPU hardware/software. Yet somehow one can run Elden Ring on Steam via Proton with a few mouse clicks and no issues, which would've been inconceivable to me only a few years ago.

Re:NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Ke... by Fr0styMatt88 on Thursday July 18, 2024 @01:55AM (#40992848)
Yeah it’s pretty awesome overall. I think the issues are from a few things on my end:

- I’ve upgraded through a few iterations starting with Plasma 6, so my dotfiles might be a bit wonky. I’m not using Home Manager so my dotfiles are stateful.

- Could be very particular to my dock setup as I have two docks + one of the clock widgets.

- Could be the particular wallpaper I’m using (it’s one of the dynamic ones that comes with KDE).

- It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s related to audio somehow as I have Bluetooth set-up for when I need it.

I’m sure it’ll settle soon enough :)

Re:NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Ke... by postcert on Thursday July 18, 2024 @11:57AM (#40996926)
I've been having a similar flakiness with plasma on Nixos (proprietary + 3070 as well). Sadly can't say whether it did{n't} happen on another distro as I last used Arch around the v535 driver.

I found it funny how silently it would fail at times. After coming out of a game or focusing on something I'd scratch my head as to where did the docks/background went. I'd say you're lucky in that it recovered itself, generally I needed to run `plasmashell` in the alt+f2 run prompt.