The Windows Device Manager, on Linux
A new application replicates the Windows Device Manager for Linux users, built using Qt6. It offers features such as a two-level device tree, driver management, and hardware scanning. The tool is designed for CachyOS and Arch Linux, with some features requiring additional packages.
- ▪The application is a recreation of the Windows Device Manager for Linux.
- ▪It includes a full two-level device tree backed by real sysfs/procfs data.
- ▪Users can enable or disable devices and manage drivers through the application.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/actuallyaridan/linux-devmgmt |
| Publication time | Fri, 29 May 2026 10:09:39 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-29T10:20:00.361Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-29T10:20:00.361Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -WRUrTLXsW9H · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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linux-devmgmt The Windows Device Manager, on Linux A faithful recreation of the Windows Device Manager built with Qt6 and real hardware backends via sysfs/procfs. Best enjoyed with AeroThemePlasma, but looks great on regular KDE as well. NoteBuilt for CachyOS / Arch Linux.Some features (DKMS uninstall, driver date lookup) depend on dkms and pacman. Other distros may need minor adjustments. Building sudo pacman -S qt6-base cmake cmake -B build cmake --build build -j ./build/devmgmt Runtime dependencies Tool Purpose pkexec Privilege escalation for enable/disable/uninstall modinfo Driver details dkms (optional) DKMS driver management pacman (optional) Package date lookup Features Full two-level device tree (by type) backed by real sysfs/procfs data Per-device Properties dialog with General,…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.