"Fuck You NVIDIA" (and What I Learned Staring at a Blank Screen)

When I A bug or an system display related issue I found in Arch Linux running with SDDM. It wakes up. Black screen. I'm running Arch Linux with SDDM . NVIDIA GPU. Consumer card. Here's the thing about NVIDIA on Linux: their power management on consumer-level hardware is broken by design. When the display sleeps and wakes, the driver conflicts. The screen doesn't recover. You're left staring at nothing, wondering if you broke something or if something was always broken. It's a known issue. Documented in forums. Mentioned in bug trackers. NVIDIA just hasn't cared enough to properly fix it for us. Linus Torvalds, 2012 (Still accurate) A Year on Arch (Without Going Down the Rice Hole) I've been on Arch for a year now. I didn't rice it. Not obsessively, anyway. I knew the trap — you spend three months building a desktop that's perfectly yours: every keybinding, every color, every font chosen by your own hands, understood by exactly one person on Earth. Beautiful to you. Useless to your dead