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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: 0.209s | 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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ddtaylor ◴[07 Jul 22 23:38 UTC] No.32021123[source]▶
I use Nvidia for gaming systems that only run Windows and never get any of my important credentials entered on them; they strictly run games only. For development and non-gaming tasks I use an Intel integrated graphics system on Linux instead. Wayland on the iGPU systems runs great!
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1. heywoodlh ◴[08 Jul 22 00:40 UTC] No.32021599[source]▶
I am in the exact same boat.

Additionally, I have set up Nvidia's gamestream so I can keep my Windows devices tucked away in a closet and that allows me to game on the go -- and not have to directly interface with my Windows machine aside for gaming related stuff. So most games I stream to either my Apple TV, iPhone or Dell XPS running Arch (when I want to use a mouse+keyboard).

My Wireguard setup combined with Moonlight allows me to stream remotely, too! When I am visiting in-laws a few hundred miles away it works flawlessly.

It's super nice to be able to game remotely :)