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Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by nickv »

Scramblejams wrote: post #16
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.

Many of the replies completely missed the part about Nvidia, sigh . I unfortunately still see a lot of Proton bug reports that don’t repro on AMD cards. Hoping that improves soon, I’m sure Valve would love to tell hardware makers that Nvidia GPUs are supported.

Games I've played on my Arch Linux desktop with a 4090 in the past few months: Clair Obscur, Disco Elysium, Outer Worlds, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk, Dispatch, Silent Hill f, FFVII Rebirth. I haven't had a single issue with any of these games. What games do you think will struggle? I can give them a shot if I own then and let you know how they do.

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Post by samlinnfer »

jwcooper wrote: post #19

Most 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.

In Arch, the current NVIDIA driver automatically sets KMS and the kernel command line and hyperland changes are no longer needed. Basically it just works now.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by heavyset_go »

cedws wrote: post #32
lawn wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> a regular user has NO IDEA how to fix.

Buy hardware that supports Linux and you won't have to think about it.

At this point hardware incompatibility is a self-imposed problem.

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Post by morshu9001 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #10
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.

Gold isn't really play without fiddling. Like look at BeamNG or AOE2DE

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by morshu9001 »

lawn wrote: post #22
cedws wrote: post #18

Meanwhile 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.

The only easier one is ChromeOS

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Post by senectus1 »

jwcooper wrote: post #15
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.

You can do that now, and for at least the last year. Very few games don't work anymore, and most that don't are using kernel level anti-cheat or are generally hostile to users anyways (Fortnite and Destiny 2 could work, but they actively block Linux). I main Fedora with an Nvidia 3080 and haven't had issues for quite some time now.

same with a 4070 ti S on fedora

no issues.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by baobun »

kachapopopow wrote: post #28

Interesting coincidence, yesterday I was using a similar article to hopefully fix kwin starting to slow down after 10+ days of uptime.

Hm, I've recently noticed kwin taking up what seems like way too much CPU at idle. Fedora with KDE. Happens on both X11 and Wayland with Wayland being worse and perceptibly slower.

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Post by bjoli »

jwcooper wrote: post #19

Most 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.

I had Nvidia up until a year ago or so. Every single time I had to do any kind of maintenance it was because of their drivers.

Since I don't play any more games than Minecraft and don't really need a fancy gpu I have switched to intel. Now I have two things which I buy intel only. GPUs and WiFi. I have had one glitch with opengl under a VM, but I am not sure that is intel only since it also had issues with my Nvidia card.

Re: Wayland Nvidia

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Post by bjoli »

antonyh wrote: post #54

Having failed to get Wayland working on Debian Trixie with a 1050 Ti as an upgrade from X11, I've given up for now and will try again when I switch to AMD. This is a workstation not used for games so it'd be good to have Wayland working right but I'm not wasting time fighting it, and it'll get the GPU from the gaming rig when it becomes due nullifying the problem. What I don't get is if these are proscribed steps (an…

I have 3 intel gpus. One for light gaming and desktop use (3 screens), another one for light gaming and one for video transcoding. The experience is flawless for me. One of the cards seems to have issues with qemu and opengl rendering, but it is an older model and is no longer sold retail.
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