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I'm joining the Wayland club on Nvidia (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I had those same issues on my 3080. I switched to AMD and Kwin works great on Wayland.

I wonder. Does KWin still use the old workaround for Nvidia?

I remember gnome refusing to bend to Nvidia over eglstreams.

If Kwin is still using that workaround, even now after Nvidia conceded, maybe that is the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Definitely think NVidia has got some ways to go on improving Wayland drivers. AMD has its share of issues but they're a lot less obtrusive than what you're describing