Like one of the comments mentioned: there is yt-dlp for now at least.

That escalated quickly.

I distrohopped for a little while when i built my new gaming rig two years ago and can confirm:

Fedora KDE spin is the way.

In my case it does.

What happens when the daemon is stopped depends on the implementation of your drivers. I have driver for my mainboard fans that is not in the mainline linux kernel but maintained by a single guy that just recently added the functionality to give back the control to the motherboard (bios settings).

Long story short: if you disable coolercontrol and notice that your fans don’t change their speed when the temperature rises / falls, or act like they did from the bios settings, reboot your system.

That’s exactly my use case as well. Glad I could help you ;)

I also stumbled upon fancontrol-gui but it seemed a bit dated to me (last commit 2 years ago).

About nvidia: there is a section in the documentation. Coolercontrol relies on hwmon, which has a system wide scope.

Since there is no screenshot in the repo i thought i’d drop this here. You technically don’t even need to install the GUI app (but you can) since the daemon starts a webserver on localhost:11987 which looks like this:

They are develeoping it, but it’s slow because there are not as many people contributing as they would need to i think.

Anyways, if you want a more recent version, they are preparing an App store launch. One of the developers publishes more recent builds on his fork, see this comment.

https://github.com/Goooler/LawnchairRelease/releases

I’m by no means a security expert, but I encrypt all my drives with LUKS on ext4 (or btrfs with the system drive on Fedora). I have a similar use case to yours, so i would be interested in your disaster plan as you call it.

I love those guys. Not that i’m playing these, just pure admiration for them pushing up the linux market share.