Everyone on earth already uses DKMS for this installing a new kernel or driver triggers a rebuild.

The common fails are

• User has neither disabled secure boot nor set it up to accept to sign with a key your motherboard is configured to accept.

You MUST do one or the other

• User is using very new kernel with very old hardware. Support window is about 10 years for mainline. Legacy for 1-3 years. Beyond 11-13 years you are either using old kernels or third party patches.

Ex: Geforce 600 series from 2012 is stuck with nvidia driver version 470.x latest release 2024. Attempting to build against recent kernels released after 2024 may not work without patches but MAY work with up to 7.0 as of this message. See

https://github.com/joanbm/nvidia-470xx-linux-mainline

Every distro makes this easy. Every single one. Some have to enable a separate repo for all proprietary shit which is the limit of the challenge.

I don’t think that is a function of the nvidia GPU save that ANY discrete GPU will cause increased wear on battery and heat. Also something that starts out with 6 hours battery and now has 2 is a lot less useful than something which had 10 and now has 6.

I meant there is no particular reason to expect a gui configuration tool for a gui Window manager that isn’t expected to be dynamic to have a cli.

Generally the use case is always maximize this window or always put it on a particular workspace etc.

If it has any path to being addressable via bash you would check its dbus interface if any.

The same feature on say i3wm also isn’t a CLI nor is it any more dynamic.

Windows rules and wmctrl don’t have identical use cases although there could be overlap

you cannot use it via bash you configure it and it applies actions to windows as they are created you cannot use it at all where plasma isn’t your desktop and as of wayland you cannot use a different window maanager with KDE plasma as wayland doesn’t have the idea of window managers.

I don’t think you are ever again going to have an agnostic way to do this

it was completely hidden under a pile of made-up conspiracy bullshit

This is basically bullshit. I mean for ANY given thing you can imagine existing there is 5 weirdos on facebook somewhere but the substance and prevailing bitch fest as expressed by 99% of people bitching was perfectly comprehensible normal shit that you are completely retconning.

Linux desktop would be a lot further if the gnome project had died around the time 3.0 rolled out.

Can you actually use the ports on your dedicated GPU in this case?

Windows rules on KDE?

The overwhelming majority of systems consist of one monitor. For the minority on two monitors the overwhelming majority have 2 low DPI monitors or 2 high DPI monitors.

For those with mixed DPI screens only recently has any system supported scaling xwayland apps appropriately on such setups meaning some apps look like garbage and they still do on gnome. xrandr --scale to scale per screen has worked since 2003 and per screen fractional scaling works on Cinanamon under X right now.

To revise

90% of everyone

Single screen: Wayland == X Multiple similar DPI Wayland == X

5%

Mixed DPI with a mix of Wayland on X apps on every desktop but KDE X > Wayland

5%

Mixed DPI with a mix of wayland and X apps on KDE Wayland > X Mixed DPI with only wayland apps Wayland > X

I wonder why something that is only better for 5% and worse for 5% and requires 100% to deal with bugs missing features and growing pains has negative feelings attached!

It’s not like anyone had legit critique which online weirdos reframe as irrational

hampered by unresponsive complainer

How outside of your fantasies did people bitching actually slow down devs introducing features that people should have known were needed in 2008?

Wayland is 18 years old. From 2015 on people whose entire computer use was a browser and a terminal on their single screen laptop with intel integrated GPU were telling everyone else they needed to change over because X was already practically dead and wayland was ready for prime time.

Meanwhile even on the latest and greatest everything wayland still has at that point many problems, many limitations, and is from the perspective of many users not better in any way whatsoever and in many ways worse. Continue this for 11 years. By the time everything is ready for prime time you’ve already primed people to reject and dislike you.

If shit is actively broken and you want to keep using it you should actually fuckin fix it. That is sustainable…what you are doing is just lazy and cheap.

infrequently used large tv hooked through the receiver

This makes it seem like Linux has a problem with multiple monitors when you just aren’t supposed to connect your 80s AV hardware between TV and computer. You should absolutely expect that to either require an active convertor to your obsolete shit AND OR cutting out the intermediary. If you are going to use weird shit its on you to actually understand how it works.

Out of all the people on earth you might literally be singular person anywhere with this setup. Meanwhile everyone else is just plugging in shit and watching it work.

This can actually be done with any fs that supports cheap snapshots

If you use arch and managing nvidia is hard you shouldn’t have picked arch

The wrong assumption is that you have to pick the best of all possible everything the first time. People agonize less about choosing a type of car to spend $30,000 on knowing that if you sell it used its instantly worth 5000 less.

Meanwhile you can switch everything about your computer in 2 hours for free.

encrypt your home directory stated as such doesn’t mean encrypt ANY partition. Distros that offer this normally use ecryptfs. encrypting your partition uses LUKS. They use ecryptfs because its easy and doesn’t effect the boot up process. Full disk (or partition) uses LUKS

This is what most people would be using yes. You could also write a runit service file