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@martin Thanks, Martin, but I'm happy with Fedora KDE Plasma at the moment. I use Lenovo hardware and Lenovo has a partnership with Red Hat (RHEL / Fedora) & Canonical (Ubuntu), so the driver support is very good. I'm still mainly using Windows for commercial apps like Maya & Houdini. I keep a copy of AlmaLinux around for RHEL compatible apps in case it's needed. I might circle back to FreeBSD in the future as the tech landscape constantly changesOf interest few yrs ago https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO

Found #NVIDIA released new Production Branch of their #GPU #drivers 595.104.02. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/279809/Linux counterparts for x11/linux-nvidia-libs is: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/279807/Already filed a PR for upgrading #FreeBSD #ports as Bug298790 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=298790and opened corresponding review D59925 for it. https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59925Note that the regression I've described in commit message for New Feature Branch 615.71.09 at commit ports ea09eafd0488 doesn't happen on 595.104.02. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=ea09eafd0488eee9bfb7362f626a35518bcc998f

Found #NVIDIA released latest New Feature Branch (NFB) of their #GPU #drivers 615.71.09. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/278452/Linux counterpart: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/278450/I've filed a #FreeBSD PR 298428 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=298428and opened corresponding review D59609 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59609for updating #ports.This version bumps minimum supported version of FreeBSD to 14.3-RELEASE.But I've NOT mentioned in description as ports has policy to drop supports for EoL'ed versions, and 14.3-RELEASE is already EoL'ed.And as I've mentioned in descriptions, there's a regression remaining that vty screen shifts downward around half a character just after startup and before starting X11 or Wayland. But as others in maintainers of these ports don't bitten unlike myself, it would be depending on GPU model or installed softwares.So upgrading earlier rather than delaying for finishing fix should be preferred.

@grahamperrin Optimus is a trademark of NVIDIA for their implementation of hybrid graphics.And other manufacturers like AMD calls almost the same thing differently.From the CPU-side of the view, PRIME is the underlying interface for iGPU and dGPU (not limited with NVIDIA) to offload heavy graphics tasks to mighty dGPU, mainly using efficient (but poor in performance) iGPU.Before Austin's port of nvidia-drm.ko appears, the only "working" way to achieve hybrid graphics was to use VirtualGL, with configuring individual "screen" for iGPU and dGPU respectively, and screen rendered by dGPU was needed to be transferred to another (for iGPU) with software BitBlt, as physical framebuffer cannot be shared with this method.And current implementation of nvidia-drm.ko relies on PRIME to work. Without PRIME, there's no way (arbitrations) for dGPU to access (part of) physical framebuffer of iGPU.See detailed and precise info by Austin here. https://badland.io/prime-configuration.md

Kubuntu 26.04 Beta — Resolute Raccoon | Kubuntu Seeing Firefox 148 (from Snap Store) raised an eyebrow, because I already have 149.0 (the official Debian package). I booted the beta from an old, slow USB memory stick. Live, without upgrading. It has Firefox 149 First impressions: no regression an existing issue with graphics is not fixed. There's probably a bug report for the graphics issue. I can't remember where I discussed it, I didn't want to spend too much time. The bug is an annoyance, but my time will be better spent getting a new computer …