nvidia on linux [for desktop] is utterly broken.
I ran nvidia cards for almost 15 years (shame on me): laggy X11 compositing, fragile and broken wayland. Broken suspend/resume.
Too many moving parts (selected drivers, modprobe quirks, suspend/resume scripts).
Moved to amd: slick x11, reliable wayland, NO MORE DRIVERS AT ALL, works like charm.
And yes, I do playing in Linux.
Wayland Nvidia
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Re: Wayland Nvidia
#32Meanwhile Grandma says: "what's a wayland?" How can anybody seriously argue Linux is an OS ready for ordinary users when you have to do crap like this? Complete delusion.
Linux isn't a single OS. It's hundreds of different and weird combinations. There are Linux distributions that are better than Windows or iOS for grandma to use as well as distributions where you need to be an expert to do anything.
It doesn't matter, your options are either X11 or a Wayland-based compositor, both of them come with their respective headaches that a regular user has NO IDEA how to fix.
Re: Wayland Nvidia
#33Careful there, I was almost able to see some parts of the article through the ads
Came to say something about the ads too. Ended up not even reading the article it was so bad.
It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.
Re: Wayland Nvidia
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came to say something about the ads too. Ended up not even reading the article it was so bad.
It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.
Totally agree. Every time I see someone complaining about ads, I think "What ads?"
Re: Wayland Nvidia
#35Most of this article seems unnecessary in 2025 and is very specific to Arch. For most distributions you can simply install the (proprietary) nvidia drivers and you're good to go. There is generally no tweaking or command line changes necessary for Nvidia to work on Wayland, including multi-monitors with different resolutions and refresh rates.
My "gaming" laptop is completely effed on most distributions, and forces me to use Linux Mint to select an older driver (which also causes problems.)
Re: Wayland Nvidia
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came to say something about the ads too. Ended up not even reading the article it was so bad.
It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.
Well I run an ad blocker too, but maybe we should try browsing submitted URLs without blocking ads and only upvote them IF we can still read them like that.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.
Totally agree. Every time I see someone complaining about ads, I think "What ads?"
Their adblock shamming overlay is also blocking part of the screen (on mobile) by the way
Re: Wayland Nvidia
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came to say something about the ads too. Ended up not even reading the article it was so bad.
It feels surprising that there's people on hackernews without adblock considering that adblock is not just for blocking ads, but also malware, illegal tracking and blocking annoying and useless banners.
My browser automatically blocked something that's triggering an overlay to "Disable any DNS / Extension Based AdBlocker to Continue" with no option to dismiss.
So the people on Hackernews with adblock aren't reading this.
Re: Wayland Nvidia
#39Most of this article seems unnecessary in 2025 and is very specific to Arch. For most distributions you can simply install the (proprietary) nvidia drivers and you're good to go. There is generally no tweaking or command line changes necessary for Nvidia to work on Wayland, including multi-monitors with different resolutions and refresh rates.
My "gaming" laptop is completely effed on most distributions, and forces me to use Linux Mint to select an older driver (which also causes problems.)
that sounds like a firmware issue rather than a driver one, laptops are known to have horrible apic including on windows (ex: asus laptops). https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive
Re: Wayland Nvidia
#40Interesting coincidence, yesterday I was using a similar article to hopefully fix kwin starting to slow down after 10+ days of uptime.
I noticed this myself, both gnome and kde. It turned out to be that leaving Firefox open for long periods of time caused this.