• cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Wayland by default

    Having an Nvidia-card, should I be worried about this? So far I’ve read so many “Nvidia bad, Wayland no work” posts that I have just stayed clear waiting for a final confirmation that everything is smooth sailing.

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      1 year ago

      On much more recent driver versions Wayland support has been further improved. I suggest going with Fedora Silverblue since RPM Fusion is pretty quick to roll out new driver versions.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Wayland on Nvidia with plasma for about a year and it’s been mostly fine. Only a few minor issues like night color not working or some Xwayland apps flickering, but the system feels far more responsive on Wayland so it’s well worth it to me

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      1 year ago

      None of the issues I have with wayland stem from my nvidia card, and I’m on a gaming laptop.

      Seems like one of those ‘lies told so often it becomes’ true kind of deals.

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        1 year ago

        Having swapped to Linux on Pop OS and later onto Nobara recently, I strongly disagree.

        As my personal experience on 525, 535 and even beta 545 with a 3080, so much as swapping onto a Wayland session implied lag, screen tearing issues, and stability issues / crashes on KDE and GNOME, to the point that I ended up selling the 3080 for a 7900 XTX because of how everyone said the AMD experience is so much better and it is.

        True that I havent tested it on a laptop so maybe Optimus support from Nvidia or the latest drivers have added stability overall, but this was definitely a problem in desktop for the last months to me.