I'm joining the Wayland club on Nvidia

Not gonna lie, I specifically bought an AMD GPU laptop so I could run a Wayland WM. After trying and failing with my old nvidia optane razor laptop I gave up on Nvidia. I still use it on my desktop tho. It's so much smoother than X-11.

Bought a new AMD GPU to run Wayland. Here's to NVIDIA getting their shit together or, more likely, going bankrupt.

I had nothing but issues running Wayland with Nvidia. How strange.

I keep trying Wayland and an in the middle of an attempt. I use fedora maniacally updated, Nvidia, and plasma shell. I'm about to abort again:

-even configured to directly use Wayland, I see chrome based browsers glitch out on occasion, and when it starts glitching it just keeps on glitching

-plasma panel stops updating multiple times a day, staying frozen including the clock

-sometimes kwin starts, but plasmashell has to run manually, and per above has to be restarted on occasion

-occasionally it just forgets what the monitor resolution is supposed to be and reverts to 1024x768

-the blur translucency effect glitches around mouse cursor

-immersedvr doesn't support Wayland

On the flip side, xorg problems are: -occasionally kwin can't grab keyboard for some effects until restarted. This is a well documented bug butt other than it being xorg specific, doesn't seem to be figured out.

-some things tear in ugly ways, but not nearly as bad as the chrome glitch under Wayland.

Maybe kwin isn't a great Wayland compositor, maybe Nvidia drivers are still not up to snuff. Ultimately, it's not viable for me. Further kwin is a huge factor for "why Linux desktop" for me, gnome shell is more limited even than Windows for my workflows.

my ONLY gripe with wayland rn is the lack of global hotkey support, which currently breaks Discord/other's "push to talk" feature unless you install a webserver to control your mic via your compositor's hotkey system and HTML requests 😭

I suppose push to talk can and should be owned by the desktop and not any particular app, but Id like an interim protocol until then

Have fun with your 10% FPS drop, undocumented glitches, and zero support for 45 degree tilted monitors lol

I've been using NVIDIA under Wayland for a few months now and it's been... alright? No major issues on v535 (however v545 is buggy as hell for me, Minecraft would show a black screen whenever too many pixels were updated -- needless to say, I downgraded).

However, I'd still love to swap to an AMD GPU because of better Linux support, maybe keep my current GPU for passthrough.

Yeah Wayland rules- problem for me is I'm hopelessly addicted to Synergy for mouse and keyboard sharing, and it doesn't work on Wayland yet>< I'm 100% team red and my fancy new display won't do 4k@144hz on X11 so that's frustrating. 144 and no Synergy or 1440p 144hz and Synergy

Hyprland nvidia here, running without and issues so far for about a month

I use i3 and kde on void with an amd gpu, i tried kde wayland and sway (and i check on them every few weeks), but I've found them to be buggy and sway in particular to be very difficult. I honestly have no idea why it's been like this for me, i look forward to the day wayland is truly as good as x11

I used to use Xpra a lot, to run services in remote containers/VMs. I've recently replaced all of that with waypipe. It's not quite the same as waypipe does not offer offline buffering like Xpra, but damn is it smooth and seamless!

I'm just salty that I have bugs and other folk don't. I'll regret my username choice in the future for sure but for now, I'm just going to stubbornly stick by it until NVIDIA makes better drivers

How are the games, and especially Electron apps? Gotta know this.

I‘m running kde on debian stable. I‘ll let you know when my branch is ready. Until then its X11 all the way. Wayland wont even let me log in.

I waited for so long to buy an external trackpad for my desktop, Wayland on Nvidia is basically what was preventing me from getting it. After about a month or two of stability testing, it's really great now, so since yesterday I can finally enjoy all the GNOME gestures that I enjoyed for so long on my laptop on my desktop as well!!

using terminal can be productive.

I was super happy under Wayland but switched back to x11 when my maximize and minimize buttons in Firefox (yes only Firefox) disappeared randomly after an update. It's such a small issue I lived with it for a few weeks until I changed to x11 troubleshooting some other minor issue and saw they were back (and the problem I switched for was completely unrelated, lol). The different experiences for me were basically invisible so I never bothered switching back.

Mostly I don't have strong feelings one way or the other currently, my install defaulted to x11 originally, I switched to check Wayland out and really didn't notice any major differences. I was told I'd have so many issues in Wayland that just didn't seem to exist...

Wayland is not ready yet. I'll wait till its done before jumping over.

I use i3 on a thinkpad p50 with hybrid graphics (Intel + nvidia). Works sort of stable if I force the use of the dedicated card, but I'm getting like 1,5h of battery.

Video acceleration seems to work most of the times, but for a few weeks I have problems with picom freezing my screen, capping fps in games and video. Any ideas? It took me hours to have it running sort of smooth, so I'm hesitant to try out sway and ruin my daily setup

Does anyone know a good screenshot tool for wayland?

Is there anything like Xmonad for Wayland?

If I could run Wayland with Nvidia I would actually go to the trouble of configuring Nix.

I too am at nvidia wayland. have fun

I need nightlight mode so x11 until then

Same situation, but my machine just suddenly rebooted for no apparent reason 10 minutes ago. I hope Plasma 6 irons out these instabilities.

On a microsoft surface, just switched back to X11 from Wayland. Multiple applications segfaulting that run fine under X11. Mode switching in kde is miserable under Wayland with it being completely random as to how the resizing is applied if it doesn't just crash the DE.. Works perfectly under X11. Weird power state switching under Wayland causing background tasks to fail. Again works fine under X11.

Are you using the new 550 drivers? They are supposed to include lots of wayland related fixes. I might try it myself once they update it on the arch repo. Last time I tried, my 2060 and 525 drivers just did not go with wayland, at all.

I try Wayland from time to time, but my 4k60Hz TV (HDMI) keeps having problems.

Under Wayland I only get 30Hz and sometimes it makes the system very laggy.

I can recommend a hybrid setup. That works well with Wayland as long as you set that one kernel parameter. Otherwise the two GPUs won't be in sync and you get glitches when using the dedicated one.

Games are not happy on XWayland when there's a gsync only monitor at play.

Wasn't that the guy from Stone Temple Pilots?

Fuck off with your shilling red hat