Wayland Nvidia

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Post by breve » Thu, Dec 04, 2025, 10:00 AM UTC

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by superkuh » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 3:33 PM UTC

To be clearer, as each wayland desktop pretty much creates their own incompatible wayland compositor (because wayland protocol is minimal and not feature complete) this is just a guide to fixing the hyperland broken wayland desktop. Not all waylands' broken desktops.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by tietjens » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 3:35 PM UTC

When can I reliably run ~95% of Steam titles on Linux with a Nvidia card? That's what I'm waiting for, then it's bye-bye Windows.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by brettermeier » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 3:36 PM UTC

tietjens wrote: post #3

When can I reliably run ~95% of Steam titles on Linux with a Nvidia card? That's what I'm waiting for, then it's bye-bye Windows.

~30+ years

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by ChocolateGod » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 3:38 PM UTC

superkuh wrote: post #2

To be clearer, as each wayland desktop pretty much creates their own incompatible wayland compositor (because wayland protocol is minimal and not feature complete) this is just a guide to fixing the hyperland broken wayland desktop. Not all waylands' broken desktops.

What protocol is missing from Wayland?

Yes Wayland doesn't have a printer protocol like Xorg, I know.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by pshirshov » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 3:39 PM UTC

But still no console, right?

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by marginalia_nu » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 3:39 PM UTC

tietjens wrote: post #3

When can I reliably run ~95% of Steam titles on Linux with a Nvidia card? That's what I'm waiting for, then it's bye-bye Windows.

I don't even know when I ran into a game that didn't run off Steam on Linux. There's some fiddling gamescope on Wayland to get them to perform well, but most just run out of the box with great performance.

The stuff that doesn't work typically don't work because kernel level anticheats, so a few competitive titles but even in that space many titles still run.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by everdrive » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 3:40 PM UTC

tietjens wrote: post #3

When can I reliably run ~95% of Steam titles on Linux with a Nvidia card? That's what I'm waiting for, then it's bye-bye Windows.

Wait no longer! Per capita I doubt 5% of games use kernel-level anticheat. Almost anything else runs pretty painlessly.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by bogdan » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 3:42 PM UTC

Is this stable on a multi-monitor mixed resolutions & refresh-rates setups?

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by embedding-shape » Mon, Dec 08, 2025, 3:42 PM UTC

tietjens wrote: post #3

When can I reliably run ~95% of Steam titles on Linux with a Nvidia card? That's what I'm waiting for, then it's bye-bye Windows.

https://www.protondb.com/dashboard

> Top 10 - 20% Platinum - 30% Gold - 10% Silver - 30% Bronze - 10% Borked

I'd probably say at least Gold is "reliably click and play without fiddling", so probably we're around 20-50% there right now, if we consider the top 10 games on Steam. Once you start considering top 100 or top 1000, it starts to look a lot better. But still, mainstream games are lagging seemingly.