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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 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Also, the Nvidia version comes with X11 set up, iirc, and you can swap compositors in the login screen (should be SDDM).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I personally think X11 shouldn't be used anymore. Fedora dropped official support for it recently iirc and it will soon be deprecated, so it might be even worse in the future.

Wayland works perfectly fine under Gnome from what I've heard, and with Plasma, it should be working great too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I'm ready to be done with X11. Dunno why Fedora with a perfectly working Wayland & Nvidia and updates set to manual will not offer Wayland in the session manager at login about 80% of the time. Must be something I'm doign wrong, but IDK what it is. I wish I had wayland 100% of the time o'er here.

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