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Well let's hope that massively improves the Wayland experience then. I tried it last week and still had flickering screens, laggy windows, and crashing games. In the current state it would be unacceptable for me to switch
depends if nvidia care about improving wayland, they don't really have any reason to care today. Maybe if people start purchasing hardware from their competition enough.
I'm having a perfect time on intel at least. Though I have no video game requirements.
My problem is that I'm kinda tied to CUDA and thus Nvidia. If AMD's ROCm would've been a bit better and supported on consumer GPUs I would've went for that.
But having a non-NVIDIA card in order to use the latest GNOME doesn't seem reasonable to me. Then again, maybe the pressure will finally make NVIDIA get their shit together
considering how willing they were to throw vendors like EVGA under the bus, trying to figure out what pressure Nvidia listens too might be a challenge in of of itself …
I'm gonna assume you can use Cuda, without driving the display with nvidia. You just need a motherboard with onboard Intel
That seems like a rather extreme work-around for Wayland proponent delusions. Buying an nvidia card and then not using it for graphics at all.
I was offering solutions to ops problem, is that not allowed?
Funny that people are downvoting when this is what hybrid graphics in laptops do. The iGPU to drive the display and heavier tasks get offloaded to the dGPU
That's gonna make gaming a lot harder though. And I'm on an AMD CPU. I'm not sure whether it has an internal GPU even. My point is that they'll lose a lot of users by forcing Wayland. I'm not dure Nvidia will care for such pressure
Yeah, but kde is also heading down the same path. The world can't keep maintaining a legacy stack forever just because a private company doesn't care about the problem.
I know people want things to just work and don't care about the rest but the reality is that unpaid volunteers do 99% of the work and I don't really think they should have to do extra work just because of nvidia. Maybe nvidia users get left behind, that would suck. I hope nvidia choose to fix their shit instead.
I agree that volunteers shouldn't have to maintain legacy just because a private company doesn't have their shit together. But the reality is that a lot of people have Nvidia hardware. If GNOME and KDE will not work on the most popular gaming GPU brand, we're going to push away a lot of people who are trying to start with Linux but encounter a broken mess.
Sounds like you don't agree that
you think they should, to avoid pushing people away.
I'm just saying that it doesn't matter whether we agree or not. If the choice is made to drop X support and Nvidia doesn't fix Wayland, a lot of people will end up in a mess when trying Linux for the first time and might turn back to Windows/Mac. I agree that no volunteer should do anything they don't want to do. But in the world we live in that does mean we have a problem
I had the same problems until I switched to an AMD card. Since then it's been smooth sailing in Wayland.
I had those issues with an old nvdia driver version, bun on the recent ones it works better.