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For advanced users, being able to control which kernel modules (which add or remove capabilities to the kernel) are loaded by default is a key task. However, system settings has no way to do that, leaving users to either use distribution-specific tools or text editors. I think have a system settings module to do this, under the "advanced tab" obviously, would be a very powerful tool for administrators.

Shouldn't this be a distro-specific setting? Windows doesn't have user-accessible kernel modules to enable.

It'd be great to have it but I believe it's a distro-specific job.

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i dont think KDE should mess around with such distro stuff

KDEmod already has this feature. It's called Arxin.
I think it's a good idea. And it's "easy" to implement it, as it already is implemented for Arch. So it just the matter of making Arxin distro "non-specific".

We should not add a graphical GUI to configure OS functions at all. It is more distro specific do they want to allow configuring OS that way. But the OS should take care itself and graphical tool for that should not be needed to handle it.

Here it is in Bugzilla: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213448

"Windows doesn't have user-accessible kernel modules to enable."
Who cares just because they don't doesn't mean we shouldn't

Is this distro specific?
kernel modules are held in /lib/modules/`uname -r`
module configuration is done in /etc/modprobe.d/
currently running module info is got from lsmod
information about a module is got from modinfo

There is some functionality that kde probably shouldn't reimplement but most module configuration and installation is generic