Re:Ask HN: When do you think Wayland will be broadly supported?
by bmurphy1976 on Saturday July 30, 2022 @09:57AM
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Same here. I have an AMD 5500xt that has no issues with Wayland or X11. I upgraded to a 3080FE and Wayland is unusable and X11 is buggy as hell. It's so bad I'm tempted to ditch the 3080 and switch back to an AMD card once the next gen cards are available this fall. I fully blame Nvidia for this situation.
Re:Ask HN: When do you think Wayland will be broadly supported?
by nebul on Saturday July 30, 2022 @10:17AM
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> Wayland has solved more problems for me than it caused, but I'm bummed our that I can't use my laptop's external screen because of nvidia shenanigans (had to mess with some udev rules to even het the option!).
I think that particular issue has been fixed in the latest release. Tried it the other day on my Fedora laptop running NVIDIA 515.57 and it worked surprisingly well.
Things are improving at a steady pace but Optimus laptops continue to be an irritating experience unfortunately. Breaking suspend every month or so is basically tradition at this point.
Wayland has solved more problems for me than it caused, but I'm bummed our that I can't use my laptop's external screen because of nvidia shenanigans (had to mess with some udev rules to even het the option!).
So, when it comes to my problems: when I buy a new AMD GPU for my desktop and replace my laptop in a couple of years. I'm not foolish enough to think that Nvidia is ever going to put effort into making Wayland work right on their hardware despite their "open" "driver". I'm sure there are people working for Nvidia that would like nothing more than to open the driver and just make Linux work with their hardware, but they're not the people who are allowed to decide to do so.