In addition to today’s blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition “nears completion” as it works to become Wayland-only in early 2027.

Headlining the KDE highlights for 2025 by Nate Graham was the work on the Wayland transition. This year saw Wayland work around HDR / color management, P010 video color support, better drawing tablets, improved accessibility, overlay planes, RandR emulation, screen mirroring, support for custom modes, pre-authorization for portal-based permissions, clipboard and USB portals, and support for a variety of newer Wayland protocols. Wayland’s xdg-toplevel-tag, color-representation, fio, xx_pip, and other protocols were implemented this year

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Yes, you dodged a bullet for sure, and the 7800 should age well.

    That being said, I think the RTX 2060 is new enough to have fewer Linux issues, and simply having DLSS means it would have aged quite well too.

    • guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Yep! I actually ended up putting it in my server for media transcoding in jellyfin and it works pretty damn well. I’ve had a few hiccups with the drivers not loading after kernel updates, so I made a script that runs every boot to check if the drivers are there, and if not, to reinstall/rebuild them and reboot up to 5 times. If, after 5 times, it doesn’t work. It stops rebooting so I can try to manually fix it.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Heh. Sounds like you basically invented dkms?

        If your distro doesn’t ship Nvidia drivers in sync with (and built against) your kernel, you’re supposed to install dkms versions that rebuild the driver automatically after every kernel/driver update. Not that this is obvious or anything, it took me a while to figure it out.

        What distro are you using?

          • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            Ah yeah Fedora does not support Nvidia. But third party repos should have a dkms version of the driver you should install instead.

            On distros that do support Nvidia, the Nvidia driver is always paired to the kernel they provide, updating together.

            Otherwise you literally do have to rebuild it every time. That’s what dkms automates, heh.