I know it's called plasma, and I don't know if it's actually plasmas fault, don't judge me, it's for the meme
Found the Nvidia user
Some people have KDE problems because they use Nvidia. I have KDE problems because I switched from Nvidia to amd but there's no way to uninstall Nvidia drivers in arch without a os reinstall and I'm too lazy for that (games still work, but many of my KDE bugs are probably caused by Nvidia drivers still being present). We are not the same.
You literally just have to uninstall the Nvidia packages
pacman -Rs nvidia nvidia-tools
i kinda did the same today, but my machine was headless.
can you give me more info on why is impossible to uninstall Nvidia drivers?
Just switched from 2080 super to 7900xt last week on Endeavour. Install amdgpu, vulkan and mesa, reboot and install, uninstall nvidia stuff.
How do you like this setup? I'm on the same thing, using nixos. It's great, but Nvidia is clearly a buggy mess when I compare to my steam deck (I know not apples to apples)
I am loving it. Most recent builds have been absolutely smooth. My only complaint, a minor one, is I'm lazy and would like to see Discover added and populated with flatpak and appimage support more easily.
It was good with the 2080. It's great with the 7900. Everything I throw at it, maxed out 4k, streamed via Sunshine (max detail/quality all) to an nvidia Shield or Steamdeck running moonlight, is so closely synced that audio is pretty much matched.
And since getting rid of nvidia, no more waking up in the mornings to find the thing had crashed and rebooted to maintenance mode during some sort of unattended update or process.
Wat
sudo pacman -Rnsc nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils
Unless you went to the NVIDIA website and ran the .bin, you're not supposed to do that on any distro unless you want problems.
Although it still shouldn't use an inactive driver.
When I last had an Nvidia GPU (secondhand PC), I discovered that the drivers came with altered versions of a lot of the 3D rendering libs. Those drivers are a cancer.
I didn't know that, but when I changed to AMD I didn't think twice before reinstall everything so I never reached this knowledge.
;-;
I feel your pain, I was there once my friend, just hold on plasma 6 is coming.
just hold on plasma 6 is coming.
It's only a matter of time until Nvidia will fuck up compatibility again. Waiting for workarounds to Nvidia problems is not the solution.
I really wish Linux hardware companies would stop selling Nvidia, and that Linux users would stop buying Nvidia. They don't care about us.
EDIT: Yes I know people with Nvidia switch to Linux with existing hardware. That's not what I'm getting at and I hope those people choose their next GPU wisely.
They don’t care about us.
Nvidia only cares about CUDA and users don't even need to use the Nvidia hardware to output graphics for that. Pretty sure Nvidia barely tests non-headless use of their hardware on Linux.
Or AMD, apparently. The bug report for this issue was explicitly renamed to say "Non Intel GPUs" - even though it seemed to be more likely(?) to happen to Nvidia users.
What's the matter?
I've had laptop with Nvidia GPU, and the only thing was that for some reason the driver only worked with Linux 5.4. Other than that, it was fine.
I just have "plasmashell --replace" mapped to meta + del.
I totally just stole that one
No need to steal, I'm giving it away for free :)
Do you know the whats the difference by any chance? Would be interested
They are both doing the exact same thing. In your case it's just stopping and starting the service with separate commands instead of restarting with a single command.
You know what's funny... I use Windows still for gaming and I have KDE connect installed to control stuff from my phone, and I have a "Refresh KDE connect" shortcut because the connection sometimes bugs out.
I've had to have such a shortcut for... 4+ years now.
It gets used too often
If you disable previews on hover, it seems to make the issue go away. At least it did for me. The bug report I've submitted months ago is still unsolved, but it's better than having to restart the compositor every time
ah a fellow Waterfox user, flatpak or appimage?
AUR waterfox-bin, btw (¬‿¬") I'm almost glad to have made the mistake to install Arch because through AUR I don't have to get involved in these flatpack/snap/appimage wars xD (also because I have no clue what I am doing, but don't tell anyone)
ahah lol that's fair, i maintain the flatpak so whenever i see someone with Waterfox on Linux I get curious. Love the AUR but I'm mostly on immutable distros so I don't get to use it qwq
I actually used the flatpak on my mint install a while ago, had no problems. So great work for a great browser I'd say xD thanks o7
lol thanks, it's more of a side project atm as I'm juggling school and running IT for my dad's business but I'm glad to hear it worked for you!
This is unrelated but what's the appeal toward immutable distros to you?
I don't mean this in a hostile way I'm genuinely curious to know. I usually consider the ability to change anything about Linux as quite a big selling point so these distros seem kinda counterproductive to me.
I usually consider the ability to change anything about Linux as quite a big selling point so these distros seem kinda counterproductive to me.
Immutable distros are actually easier to customize and tinker with than traditional distros, while being safer. Example: Universal Blue
i mostly use kde apps like krita and kdenlive, although when i did use plasma i didn't have these issues. i use sway now because i wanted fully functional tiling (both polonium and bismuth were weird/buggy)
I eventually want to return to GNU/Linux, but I just don't see a DE that has no drawbacks. The most reasonable choice I think is to just return to MATE, even though it looks dated and doesn't feel to innovate.
I really want to try KDE out but it looks like a cluster fuck for me.
Plasma is fine. This buggy reputation is from a decade ago.
I can just recommend trying it out. If you're not stupid like me and use the wayland session with nvidia drivers it is anything but a clusterfuck
Linux mint cinnamon?
Try gnome, it's really good!
Similar to an official cinnamon feature that automatically reloads cinnamon if it's memory usage becomes too high
I see someone else is also using waterfox
I've literally never need to do that.
Still don't understand the purpose of wayland besides cleaner code and easier updates for kernel level stuff.
X11 has been fairly updated with all the features people wanted and needed anyway. Just because no one uses all of its niche and antiquated plugins and extra stuff, doesn't mean its inherently an outdated program.
I'm pretty sure that recent X.Org server development has been driven by XWayland for the most part, the tags on repo certainly look that way
I use Arch btw
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