I run proprietary Nvidia drivers as well and Wayland runs so much better than Xorg now that I'm permanently coming over to Wayland. I'm extremely happy rn with Wayland

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[–] 55 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Not gonna lie, I specifically bought an AMD GPU laptop so I could run a Wayland WM. After trying and failing with my old nvidia optane razor laptop I gave up on Nvidia. I still use it on my desktop tho. It's so much smoother than X-11.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

    It should be noted that for some reason, people in Linux communities seem to never watch hardware accelerated video content, because AMD 6000 and 7000 have HUGE issues regarding video decoding on Linux, Im talking full system crash or full system freezes after 30 minutes of watching videos on youtube (and thats without mentionning the video freezing for a few seconds with the audio still going, and then catching up, and refreezing a few seconds later). It caused me to install Chrome which does not have hardware acceleration yet to watch youtube if I wanted to have an uptime of more than 1.5 days.

    These issues have only been reported on AMD's iGPUs though, so I think dedicated graphics cards should be fine. But anyways, for this reason alone, I would just recommend Intel chips for most users, especially now with the new Intel Gen 1 Ultra or whatever its called, the GPU is basically on-par with AMD and the CPU is very close as well.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Hm weird. Running 6000 series igpu with hw decoding on, no issues.

    On desktop 7000 series dGpu, also no issues.

    There were some Frame drops in the past, but current kernel + Mesa has no issues for me.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Bought a new AMD GPU to run Wayland. Here's to NVIDIA getting their shit together or, more likely, going bankrupt.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's hilarious. πŸ˜„ Linux users dropping Nvidia en-masse would be like a half a percent blip on their desktop market share. Probably couldn't even tell if it's a rounding error.

    This is a company that's speculated to drop the desktop consumer market altogether at some point. They make so much money from other industries it's obscene. I suspect they only keep the gaming and desktop crowd around for the drama and the publicity. They don't really give a shit anymore.

    Which would be sad in a way because Linux gaming was built on Nvidia. For the longest time it was the one manufacturer you could count on to be there and deliver decent, accelerated Linux drivers consistently.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Consider all the gamers with more money than sense buying 4090s for the price of cars and, more importantly, many companies buying datacenter cards for their next generative AI project (not that I think many of them will last).

    I don't see Nvidia running out of money any time soon.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I had nothing but issues running Wayland with Nvidia. How strange.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    That's because the drivers are bullshit but not the problem in general. They work well for some very specific cards, not at all for other and in general it's just random hit or miss.

    And then, to make it more fun, not all wayland compositors are born equal either.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I keep trying Wayland and an in the middle of an attempt. I use fedora maniacally updated, Nvidia, and plasma shell. I'm about to abort again:

    -even configured to directly use Wayland, I see chrome based browsers glitch out on occasion, and when it starts glitching it just keeps on glitching

    -plasma panel stops updating multiple times a day, staying frozen including the clock

    -sometimes kwin starts, but plasmashell has to run manually, and per above has to be restarted on occasion

    -occasionally it just forgets what the monitor resolution is supposed to be and reverts to 1024x768

    -the blur translucency effect glitches around mouse cursor

    -immersedvr doesn't support Wayland

    On the flip side, xorg problems are: -occasionally kwin can't grab keyboard for some effects until restarted. This is a well documented bug butt other than it being xorg specific, doesn't seem to be figured out.

    -some things tear in ugly ways, but not nearly as bad as the chrome glitch under Wayland.

    Maybe kwin isn't a great Wayland compositor, maybe Nvidia drivers are still not up to snuff. Ultimately, it's not viable for me. Further kwin is a huge factor for "why Linux desktop" for me, gnome shell is more limited even than Windows for my workflows.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Have fun with your 10% FPS drop, undocumented glitches, and zero support for 45 degree tilted monitors lol

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    my ONLY gripe with wayland rn is the lack of global hotkey support, which currently breaks Discord/other's "push to talk" feature unless you install a webserver to control your mic via your compositor's hotkey system and HTML requests 😭

    I suppose push to talk can and should be owned by the desktop and not any particular app, but Id like an interim protocol until then

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago*

    Hyprland nvidia here, running without and issues so far for about a month

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I've been using NVIDIA under Wayland for a few months now and it's been... alright? No major issues on v535 (however v545 is buggy as hell for me, Minecraft would show a black screen whenever too many pixels were updated -- needless to say, I downgraded).

    However, I'd still love to swap to an AMD GPU because of better Linux support, maybe keep my current GPU for passthrough.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Yeah Wayland rules- problem for me is I'm hopelessly addicted to Synergy for mouse and keyboard sharing, and it doesn't work on Wayland yet>< I'm 100% team red and my fancy new display won't do 4k@144hz on X11 so that's frustrating. 144 and no Synergy or 1440p 144hz and Synergy

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I use i3 and kde on void with an amd gpu, i tried kde wayland and sway (and i check on them every few weeks), but I've found them to be buggy and sway in particular to be very difficult. I honestly have no idea why it's been like this for me, i look forward to the day wayland is truly as good as x11

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    How are the games, and especially Electron apps? Gotta know this.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    Iβ€˜m running kde on debian stable. Iβ€˜ll let you know when my branch is ready. Until then its X11 all the way. Wayland wont even let me log in.

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I used to use Xpra a lot, to run services in remote containers/VMs. I've recently replaced all of that with waypipe. It's not quite the same as waypipe does not offer offline buffering like Xpra, but damn is it smooth and seamless!

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    [–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I'm just salty that I have bugs and other folk don't. I'll regret my username choice in the future for sure but for now, I'm just going to stubbornly stick by it until NVIDIA makes better drivers

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I waited for so long to buy an external trackpad for my desktop, Wayland on Nvidia is basically what was preventing me from getting it. After about a month or two of stability testing, it's really great now, so since yesterday I can finally enjoy all the GNOME gestures that I enjoyed for so long on my laptop on my desktop as well!!

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I was super happy under Wayland but switched back to x11 when my maximize and minimize buttons in Firefox (yes only Firefox) disappeared randomly after an update. It's such a small issue I lived with it for a few weeks until I changed to x11 troubleshooting some other minor issue and saw they were back (and the problem I switched for was completely unrelated, lol). The different experiences for me were basically invisible so I never bothered switching back.

    Mostly I don't have strong feelings one way or the other currently, my install defaulted to x11 originally, I switched to check Wayland out and really didn't notice any major differences. I was told I'd have so many issues in Wayland that just didn't seem to exist...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    using terminal can be productive.

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Is there anything like Xmonad for Wayland?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    If I could run Wayland with Nvidia I would actually go to the trouble of configuring Nix.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I use i3 on a thinkpad p50 with hybrid graphics (Intel + nvidia). Works sort of stable if I force the use of the dedicated card, but I'm getting like 1,5h of battery.

    Video acceleration seems to work most of the times, but for a few weeks I have problems with picom freezing my screen, capping fps in games and video. Any ideas? It took me hours to have it running sort of smooth, so I'm hesitant to try out sway and ruin my daily setup

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    [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Does anyone know a good screenshot tool for wayland?

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Same situation, but my machine just suddenly rebooted for no apparent reason 10 minutes ago. I hope Plasma 6 irons out these instabilities.

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  • I try Wayland from time to time, but my 4k60Hz TV (HDMI) keeps having problems.

    Under Wayland I only get 30Hz and sometimes it makes the system very laggy.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    On a microsoft surface, just switched back to X11 from Wayland. Multiple applications segfaulting that run fine under X11. Mode switching in kde is miserable under Wayland with it being completely random as to how the resizing is applied if it doesn't just crash the DE.. Works perfectly under X11. Weird power state switching under Wayland causing background tasks to fail. Again works fine under X11.

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