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Are We Wayland Yet?

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96 points picture | 2 comments | 07 Jul 22 22:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.523s | source
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exabrial ◴[08 Jul 22 03:23 UTC] No.32022699[source]▶
I have a question because I have not kept up with desktop remix for about 10 years. 10 years ago you could download a proprietary driver for Linux and Nvidia and it would actually work great. Is that still the case today or are you just completely hosed if you have Nvidia graphics?
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1. JellyBeanThief ◴[08 Jul 22 03:46 UTC] No.32022851[source]▶
That's how it works for me on Fedora 36. I use GNOME and drive four monitors including my laptop's with the 515.57 version of proprietary driver. It works very well for day-to-day use on X11, and very well for day-to-day use on Wayland.

Here are my biggest problems:

* On X11, after waking from sleep, fonts are sometimes garbled. This is easily fixed by restarting GNOME. I never have to do this with Wayland.

* On X11, I always have to manually rearrange my monitors every time I plug them in, because some part of the stack doesn't know how to remember them. They work perfectly on Wayland.

* On Wayland, GNOME's Night Light feature does not work. Night Light tints things red in the evening to help me sleep.

* On Wayland, some apps misbehave in strange ways. Electron-based apps are sometimes slow to react to input, but updates have been fixing this. Also, Calibre's Ebook Viewer perpetually hangs. I have no idea why.

Fortunately, switching between X11 and Wayland is pretty easy--just a log out and then back in after specifying which one I want.

Gaming is different. It rarely works on Wayland. Much better on X11. But I don't game very much, so this is not based on a really wide selection.

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2. exabrial ◴[08 Jul 22 03:59 UTC] No.32022952[source]▶
So basically Wayland/Nvidia is works pretty well, just no gaming?