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Nvidia users: *Chuckles* I'm in Danger
I tried Gnome with Wayland and an Nvidia card just yesterday, it worked fine so far with the proprietary drivers. NixOS not Fedora though.
I use Wayland on NixOS too and everything works fine except slight flickering in games.
I think it'll be fixed soon though and I can fully move to Wayland.
Can confirm. Wayland with new nvidia GPU is currently unusable even with the proprietary drivers. F39
I am currently in F39 Wayland with proprietary nVidia drivers and I have not experienced any issues. (Laptop Quadro P3200)
Edit: this was a useless comment. OP specified new, my laptop is an old boy.
They said new nVidia GPUs. Your Quadro P3200 is five years old now.
Yeah, I was talking about one of the new ones released this past January
Shit, my bad. Totally skimmed that word.
All good, brother. I wasn't that clear
That's my bad. I missed the word new. Skimmed right over it.
I though Nvidia was getting better
It definitely is, but "better" does not mean "good" unfortunately.
Hopefully Nvidia will push harder for decent drivers now that corporate Linux servers are in route to disabling X11, but as you can still get X11 back with just a simple package, I expect this process to take years.
It’s horrible. My laptop with hybrid graphics works ok except for a brief flicker every time it wakes from sleep. It’s not a big deal. My desktop with dedicated nvidia is a hot mess - constant flickering. Steam is borderline non-functional and there are all kinds of graphical glitches on the desktop. I’m stuck with X11 on that machine.
If it's not usable they just won't use it.
@redcalcium @e8d79 The noVideo experience on Linux dramatically improved, especially with the latest driver versions and modern DIVORCE GPUs. We also kinda have to accept the death of X11
I sure hope so. Just the other day I updated to nvidia v550. Got a blank tty screen right after login to gnome/wayland. Rebooted the computer and login to gnome/x11, no issue. Logout and relogin to gnome/wayland, somehow no issue anymore. I guess this kind of random issues will persist until one day Nvidia decides to play nice with Wayland.