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Are We Wayland Yet?

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96 points picture | 1 comments | 07 Jul 22 22:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source
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jpgvm ◴[07 Jul 22 23:14 UTC] No.32020896[source]▶
Ah yes. Nvidia. The green death.

At this point my systems are going to be pure AMD until status quo changes. I begrudgingly used Nvidia while they were the better of 2 proprietary blob options but now that AMD GPUs work out of the box with no hassle (for the ones I have tried at-least) and are competitive on performance for what I do (consumer workloads/gaming) then there is no contest.

Right now I'm daily driving Wayland + Sway on Arch and it's been mostly good. Only issues I have ran into have been weirdness in the whole Alsa + Pipewire + etc stack which is hairy AF. Configuring Electron things to use Ozone auto detection makes them run native rather than via XWayland which is nice too.

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1. zamadatix ◴[07 Jul 22 23:49 UTC] No.32021211[source]▶
Nvidia with Sway actually works well now since the big GBM announcement last fall. Some are even using the newer open source driver but I haven't bothered yet as it is still alpha quality for the desktop use case. For me it doesn't matter too much until Wayland HDR lands though, my non HDR system was already AMD because the GPU support was better.