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Been running Fedora 40 for a few months, and having a hard time keeping Wayland as the desktop environment. Just did a fresh install, and the Nvidia driver updates to 555.58.02. I really want to stick with the Recommended branch, not the New Feature branch. Every update, Wayland breaks. How do I rollback to 550, and switch to the Recommended Branch for updates?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

You could maybe try Bazzite or Aurora/Bluefin.

They are all Fedora Atomic, the "immutable" Fedora variant, and offer baked in Nvidia support.

The cool thing is:

  1. If the driver/ Wayland breaks on your install, then it will break on thousands of others simultaneously, and the devs can fix it very very quickly, because every installation is identical.
  2. If it breaks, you can roll back in seconds and keep using the image that still worked yesterday. And in the meantime, the developers are already working on a fix, which takes just hours or a day max.
  3. You don't have to install and update anything yourself. Just do your computer stuff and stop worrying.
  4. There's also a GTS (or whatever it's called) variant around, which is the last major version of Fedora. You won't get the newest stuff and will be half a year behind in terms of features, but then there won't be any surprises. I believe the bluefin:gts isn't around yet, but will come with the next major release.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I did try Bazzite after this post - defaults to Nvidia 560 driver, which is still not the stable. Also installs extra things that I had to turn off - ended up re-wiping and going back to Fedora 40. I may retry in the future, though - but in general, I'm less interested in immutable at this point.

Thank you for the suggestions!

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