Wayland + KDE in Arch has worked seamlessly with NVDIA GPUs for a couple of years now.

vlovich123 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

That’s what you’ve heard or been your experience?

I’m sitting with SW acceleration in the browser today because some update broke it. I have had it working in the past but I’ve had like 2-3 updates in the past 2 years break it.

And for what it’s worth there was a really bad tearing bug because of the argument over implicit and explicit synchronization that neither side wanted to fix. I think it’s since been addressed but that was only like in the past 6 months or something. So it’s definitely not been “years” since it’s been working seamlessly. Things break at a greater rate than X because X basically is frozen and isn’t getting updates.

	▲	fooker 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That has been by experience. Browser seems fine for me. With Arch, you have to read up ahead of time before updating software because it's a rolling release. I remember one breaking change when I was switching from the previous Nvidia drivers to the new 'open' ones, but some breakge was expected with that change.

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samiv 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, except when it bugs out. Mentioned some things to try to in another comment. I'd be surprised if it was just me seeing these issues...

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fooker 3 days ago | parent [-]

With an older GPU, things aren't smooth I believe.

So it might make sense to avoid Wayland in that case.

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vlovich123 3 days ago | parent [-]

I’m on a 2080.

	▲	fooker 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's the first supported generation for the official open source drivers. Make sure you have switched over instead of using the old proprietary one.