switcheroo-control not enabled by default

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Summary

Adjacent to #175

switcheroo-control is installed but not enabled by default on new Solus installations, at least as far as I can tell.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install a fresh copy of Solus (KDE in my case; any should work) on a dual-GPU system
2. Launch an app that uses PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true
3. Observe as the app still launches on the default GPU
4. Check sudo systemctl status switcheroo-control
5. switcheroo-control reports being disabled; preset: enabled

Expected result

The app should launch on the second GPU and switcheroo-control should be enabled by default.

Actual result

The app launches on the default GPU because switcheroo-control isn't running or even enabled.

An example log from one of my systems:

aaron@hp-solus-laptop ~ $ sudo systemctl status switcheroo-control
○ switcheroo-control.service - Switcheroo Control Proxy service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/switcheroo-control.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib64/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: inactive (dead)
aaron@hp-solus-laptop ~ $ sudo systemctl enable switcheroo-control
Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/switcheroo-control.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/switcheroo-control.service'.
aaron@hp-solus-laptop ~ $ sudo systemctl status switcheroo-control
○ switcheroo-control.service - Switcheroo Control Proxy service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/switcheroo-control.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib64/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: inactive (dead)
aaron@hp-solus-laptop ~ $ sudo systemctl restart switcheroo-control
[sudo] password for aaron:
aaron@hp-solus-laptop ~ $ sudo systemctl status switcheroo-control
● switcheroo-control.service - Switcheroo Control Proxy service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/switcheroo-control.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib64/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: active (running) since Sun 2026-01-04 14:46:15 CST; 2s ago
 Invocation: de1fd70842274df88591689f4c449198
   Main PID: 20724 (switcheroo-cont)
      Tasks: 5 (limit: 17674)
     Memory: 1.6M (peak: 2M)
        CPU: 18ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/switcheroo-control.service
             └─20724 /usr/lib64/switcheroo-control/switcheroo-control

Jan 04 14:46:15 hp-solus-laptop systemd[1]: Starting switcheroo-control.service - Switcheroo Control Proxy service...
Jan 04 14:46:15 hp-solus-laptop systemd[1]: Started switcheroo-control.service - Switcheroo Control Proxy service.

Environment

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Repo

Polaris (stable)

Desktop Environment

Budgie

System details

I have found this issue crop up across multiple systems with different brands and generations of GPU.
Most recent:

aaron@hp-solus-laptop ~ $ inxi -b
System:
  Host: hp-solus-laptop Kernel: 6.17.8-324.current arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.5.4 Distro: Solus 4.8 opportunity
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-ap0xxx v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: HP model: 8D26 v: 43.38 serial: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI
    vendor: AMI v: F.06 date: 05/07/2025
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 66.4 Wh (79.8%) condition: 83.3/83.3 Wh (100%)
CPU:
  Info: 8-core AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 w/ Radeon 860M [MT MCP] speed (MHz):
    avg: 623 min/max: 623/2000
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GB206M [GeForce RTX 5060 Max-Q / Mobile] driver: nvidia
    v: 580.119.02
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Krackan [Radeon 840M / 860M
    Graphics] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-3: Luxvisions Innotech HP True Vision FHD Camera driver: uvcvideo
    type: USB
  Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1200~165Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 25.3.2 renderer: AMD
    Radeon 860M Graphics (radeonsi gfx1152 LLVM 19.1.6 DRM 3.64
    6.17.8-324.current)
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
    wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  Device-2: MEDIATEK MT7922 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: mt7921e
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 953.87 GiB used: 14.2 GiB (1.5%)
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 14.64 GiB used: 3.31 GiB (22.6%)
  Processes: 355 Uptime: 32m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.40
aaron@hp-solus-laptop ~ $ 

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