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Re:Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update by danieldk on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:33AM (#19690859)
Fedora has had Wayland as the default since Fedora 25 (2016). In my experience, it has been stable since Fedora 26/27. I am not sure what the situation is now, but Wayland pretty much excluded NVIDIA. The proprietary drivers did not have support and Nouveau is buggy [1]. In my experience, it works great with both AMD (amdgpu) and Intel GPUs.

[1] The developers are doing great work, but it is a uphill battle without support from NVIDIA.

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Re:Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update by quantummkv on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:03AM (#19691060)
Fortunately, Nvidia has finally decided to get their act together. They contributed the wayland backend for KWin/KDE that got merged just last week.

If I am not wrong gnome 3.32 also has the nvidia wayland backend

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Re:Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update by opencl on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:19PM (#19693420)
KDE and GNOME both have sort-of-working EGLStreams backends. XWayland remains completely broken on EGLStreams so it's not very useful considering how many applications still lack native Wayland support.
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Re:Xubuntu 19.04: The Exhaustive Update by floatboth on Thursday April 18, 2019 @11:04AM (#19691502)
That's not "getting their act together". That would be supporting GBM instead of pushing their EGLStreams thing.
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