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Do you have an recommendation for a distro? I wanted to use mint, but i probably need wayland for a multiscreen setup with different scalings.
I keep hearing people say this. But I've got an nvidia card, and I just went with the default Mint Cinnamon install and I've had no problems whatsoever. I guess maybe my card isn't new enough to run into whatever problems other people are talking about.
... Actually, there is one minor annoyance. I get lots of nvidia flatpak updates; and they are large downloads. I'd prefer not to be downloading gigabytes of graphics card updates every week. But other flatpaks demand that I have the latest nvidia stuff, so ... I guess that is an nvidia annoyance that I experience. I don't expect that to be fixed by a bleeding edge distro though!
Yeah, Flatpak installing user-space driver for itself is unfortunately not solvable until there’s open source driver that is part of the Mesa project. Every time you update the driver in your system, Flatpak must update its nvidia-utils too, because their versions must match exactly. For Mesa drivers, Flatpak also installs the drivers as Flatpak, but they’re compatible back and forth and it only updates when it ships new version.
The cleanup should be more automatic, but try