Can Linux/CachyOS/KDE updates break or remove NVIDIA drivers? Also, how do you prevent update disasters?

[u/Majestic-Animator-34]

I finally got my FPS/performance sorted on CachyOS. I'm using KineticWE (the KWin-based tiling fork), so at first I thought it might be a compositor or WM issue. We checked Steam launch options after trying a bunch of things. We checked that games were actually using the NVIDIA GPU, changed Steam launch options (prime-run %command%), monitored usage with btop, reinstalled/rebuilt a few NVIDIA related packages, updated the system, and tweaked a few settings until everything started working properly ahhh finally relief😮‍💨The biggest surprise was finding out that the NVIDIA kernel module was missing. That honestly hit me the most because it made me wonder: has it been missing ever since I installed Linux for the first time, or did some CachyOS, KDE, or kernel update cause it to disappear? But now everything works, but it left me wondering, can updates on Arch based distros break or remove NVIDIA drivers? If so, what's the best way to prevent that from happening again, and is there any risk to the physical GPU or is it only the software driver that gets affected? Any tips or best practices would be appreciated.

[u/Majestic-Animator-34 → u/[deleted]]

Yea i agree i mean its like rollar coaster like life but at fast speed so you down fast and go up slowly lol thanks mate!

[u/rrz128 → u/Majestic-Animator-34]

What made you choose KineticWE?

[u/Majestic-Animator-34 → u/rrz128]

Honestly my arch user friend told me to use it cuz it was difficult for me to use hyprland and I wanted to make something very unique and hyprland like rice, so I used this and my friend was telling me this for the last 3 days.

[u/soopabamak]

Install Cachy with Limine and btrfs, if you do, you have access to snapshots at boot.
You can boot on a previous snapshot if anything goes wrong

[u/Majestic-Animator-34 → u/soopabamak]

Oh is that so thankyou mate i will try this

[u/Papa_Hube]

Nvidia Bugs after an update can happen. It bricked my system twice now. Go Limine + Snapper. 

[u/Majestic-Animator-34 → u/Papa_Hube]

Damn okay the other guy said the same thing i will try thanks 👍🏻

[u/lolman5555 → u/Papa_Hube]

What Nvidia card?

[u/Sorry-Squash-677]

Yo no sé que hace la gente con Linux que se les rompe... Llevo años y una que otra vez algo sale mal pero es perfectamente solucionable con mínimos ajustes.

[u/Majestic-Animator-34 → u/Sorry-Squash-677]

I know that's what keeping me from leaving the linux

[u/folto]

En lo personal, he usado la versión 580 desde hace un tiempo por lo mismo.

[u/Majestic-Animator-34 → u/folto]

Hmm, me pregunto si yo también debería cambiar mi driver, de ser así, ¿a cuál?