guihkx
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3 months ago To fix this flatpak should update the nvidia driver together with all the other updates, eliminating the need for another manual update check after a reboot
Any ideas on how Flatpak should accomplish that in a distro-agnostic manner? Sounds complicated.
Perhaps you should consider this alternative instead: https://blog.tingping.se/2018/08/26/flatpak-host-extensions.html
It's what I've been using lately on my system.
We found that every time there is a Nvidia driver update some applications which would actually need that driver end up broken or really slow (like very low fps in 3d apps, performance meter broken...).
After some digging I found that the driver version betweend host<>flatpak do get out of sync which causes the problems... This is how it goes here:
The issue here seems that flatpak does install the corresponding driver version that is currently running on the host, not the new version which just got installed by an update. This means users first need to reboot to load the new driver on the host for flatpak to realize that it should also update to the new version.
However this is too late. If users just updated their systems the update notification will not show up for the next 7 days. So users will have broken flatpak applications / driver setup for a week and go nuts
To fix this flatpak should update the nvidia driver together with all the other updates, eliminating the need for another manual update check after a reboot