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[–] interceder270 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Shalade 1 points 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.