Driving an AE86 apparently feels just like using wayland with NVIDIA

Nvidia spends the past few years aggressively refusing to cooperate with wayland because corporate brain worms and somehow it's wayland's fault.

Wile I agree that it's not Wayland's fault, I also think that people acting like X11 was obsolete yesterday and everyone should immediately stop using it simply because Wayland exists, while that is still true, are not helping the situation any

Been using it for half an year now, either the issues are insignificant or I do not observ them cause it's not bothering me!

What's your hardware and distro ? I have an Nvidia card and am considering a switch next year
- Welp, that was a plot twist. But, I use a Ryzen 3600 with a GTX 1660, nvidia-open driver on arch, wayland tested with gnome, kde and hyprland, had 0 issues as far as I can tell.
  Ok 1 issue, but afaik this is wayland not wayland + nvidia - couldn’t get stanley parable to work.
- Hardware Ryzen 7 5800x with RX 6800xt 32gb ram as for distro Arch Wayland KDE.

Do you have systemd-initiald configured correctly? :-)

eurobeats intensify

I've been using Wayland for about a year on and off with Voidlinux on the framework 13. Everything's pretty much worked from the start besides screen sharing which was a void specific issue that's been patched

I really need to get my screen sharing working. It's been a miserable slog so far.

Laughs in AMD

Cries in hardware raytracing
- Smiles in not needing proprietary software tricks to force customers into buying increasingly expensive gpus
- AMD can do that though?

I've honestly had 0 issues with Wayland for the past few years of use. Multiple computers including one with an Nvidia graphics card

Can anybody who has actually used Nvidia with wayland in the last 6 months tell me what problems you have? As a recreational PC user I have noticed 0 issues with my setup:

Ryzen 3600
Nvidia GTX 1660
Arch
Nvidia-open driver
Gnome / KDE / Hyprland (currently Gnome) running on wayland

I came from Windows 2-3 months ago, my daily usage has been more or less unaffected, especially when it comes to something I could pin to specifically nvidia + wayland.

All the above just makes it seem like nvidia + wayland bad is just a circlejerk.

RTX 2080 here, and this is the major blocker for me with Nvidia + Wayland: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1317
This issue causes XWayland apps to effectively render previous frames very sporadically, and it's especially very noticeable in Electron apps. Discord for example, sometimes someone will send a message and the message will appear, then disappear, then reappear, then disappear over and over again until it finally syncs back up. The user isn't actually deleting and resending their message of course, but the render state of the app is basically "jumping backwards through time".
Tried out the 544 beta driver, and while we did get Night Light/Color support (and that incessant top-screen flicker bug was fixed, occurred in both Wayland and X11), I started to notice the aforementioned issue heavily occurring in IntelliJ which is a Java based development tool which unfortunately is the final deal breaker for me since I can't really work when I write a line of code, and it disappears, reappears, disappears, then reappears again.
This only occurs via XWayland, and surprisingly games don't seem to get hit with it (in my case) so I suppose if you only use Wayland native apps like a web browser then it's fine - otherwise, it makes things very difficult. It also occurs on both Mutter (GNOME) and KWin (KDE) but I imagine there isn't a compositor where this doesn't happen due to what causes the actual problem in the first place.
After trying the 545 beta and the problem getting worse, it's put the nail in the coffin for me on Nvidia and I'll be picking up a 6700XT after my next paycheck comes in. It is a beta driver yes, but the root of the issue is due to the architecture of their driver which isn't going to be magically redone in between the beta and "stable" release.
So, no - I wish it was just a circlejerk, and realistically I can't see how it'd end up being this popular if it was just user error.
- Fair point, I have probably experienced this as I had weird input issues on native linux discord, I switched to WebCord, which solved the issue. before I pinpointed the issue, so I had no clue it is specific to nvidia + wayland.
  And yes, I specifically mentioned I use my PC recreationally to point out that my usecases are not too specific, so maybe I do not see the issues because of that.
In my case, windows start to flickr intensively after a while. I tried a bunch of flags and workarounds but nothing worked for me.
I use the proprietary driver, though.
Well of course you haven't had any issues you could pin specifically to NVIDIA + Wayland. Because according to your post you're specifically using Nouveau + Wayland. Be kind of strange for a driver you don't have installed to be causing you issues.
And you didn't need to point out you're an Arch user, we could tell just from the sense of superiority dripping off your comment.
- I mean, i used nvidia with KDE and nvidia-dkms with hyprland, no difference.
  E: The question is about nvidia cards playing with wayland anyway. Also afaik nvidia-open is not the same driver as noveau.
  I mentioned the distro to point out I am not using a driver package that is 6 months old.
  we could tell just from the sense…
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- I didn't know Nouveau is entirely different GPU vendor! /s
I'm using it presently, and aside from a few quirks in electron app rendering (slack input box flickers sometimes; things like that), it's been solid:
Ryzen 9 3900X (24)
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
Fedora 38
Nvidia proprietary driver
Hyprland (used Gnome before and it was fine)
I use it daily for work and some gaming (CP2077, BG3 of late) and it works well.
Before I'd updated the video card, I had a AMD 5700 xt and it mostly worked, but I was getting sporadic driver crashes (card would reset), which was annoying.
- Yea, I had no clue that it is an Nvidia + Wayland issue, I had something similar in discord, i switched to webcord before pinpointing the issue and it solved it. More of a nuisance than a real problem in my case though.
Yes, 3060 and Wayland/gnome act funny after resuming the machine from sleep while connected to a second display.
Some applications, e.g. Firefox will not update properly after a resume when screen config has been changed while asleep. That is, if I undock my laptop and then resume, Firefox won't visibly scroll or change, but buttons invisibly move which I know because where the mouse cursor changes when hovering changes after playing with the scroll wheel. Only fix is killing Firefox and restarting. Maybe it's a snap thing.
On resume, wallpaper for gdm is painted on secondary monitor while laptop display stays dark, even though that's where the login prompt etc is. A quick close/open of the laptop lid forces the main display to come back online.
- Suspend works fine for me on Wayland/Gnome, firefox only gets closed when I reboot. I use nvidia-open though, i remember before I had to take extra steps to enable proper nvidia suspend behaviour, or I had similarproblems(there was a specific package and some configs to change).
  Now mind you this is an nvidia not nvidia - wayland issue afaik.
  Here is the overview on archwiki
Laptop support is not where it needs to be especially when it comes to dual GPU.
I found proton to be unreliable. Never got hat in time to play correctly.
- Sure, it is not a 100% everything runs solution, but it is probably 85%+, maybe even 90%+ works solution. To call it unreliable knowing the history of gaming on Linux is a little odd, maybe we just have different expectetions.
  The level of certainty I can now have that a game will run on linux is so high that I am happy not wasting my time and money with games that wont.
  I have tried switching to linux off and on since about original TBC or WotLK days, I always ended up switching back because things were too finicky, or I couldnt get most games to work. Now it just works for so many things that I am happy ditching things that don't.
I used KDE with Wayland briefly a few months ago. The right-click menu would look very glitchy. Items disappeared until hovered over, and then disappeared again when moving the mouse. Firefox also had some issue where it would only take half the screen.
- Interesting, but I doubt this was an nvidia + wayland problem, or if it was, it had been since fixed. My first DE was KDE and I used the regular nvidia driver with it, for sure did not notice anything wrong with right click menus.
I've noticed some sleep issues. my solution was telling my computer to just turn off my monitors instead
- Just replied to another comment about suspend issues with nvidia.
  Have you tried doing something like this arch wiki entry
For me it was buggy but usable on arch running the LTS kernel on my rtx 3060 on KDE and gnome.
RN I'm running debian 12 which still defaults to X11 and even that is still a bit buggy on gnome.
Just don't use the bleeding edge and you'll be ok

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Interesting way to find out I missed a good episode
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Them and savagegeese
- Donut media is interesting too

Tried running a 3080 Ti with (all KDE flavors of) Arch, Tumbleweed, Ubuntu, Fedora and Nvidia drivers, X11 works okay-ish but screen glitches galore in Wayland, GPU refuses to grab the output unless iGPU is blacklisted, etc. etc. Hardware video decoding on Firefox and other Chromium-based browsers simply refuse to work because Nvidia. I'm not going to use Nouveau since I'm using it for AI content generation.

Switched to a 7900 XTX, reinstalled and haven't had a graphics-related issue thus far. ROCm is obviously in its early days but it should get better over time. A

For those folks who are seeing zero issues with their Nvidia setup and crapping on others, check your driver variant with lspci -k | grep -A 3 -E "(VGA|3D)" and see if its Nouveau.

It works just fine for me, I don’t have any issues.
Whatever, apparently those people are fine with no VRR, don’t use software that exposes the lack of implicit sync, and don’t run 4k displays and try to run with fractional scaling.
I’m so fucking sick of it when people say it’s just fine for them, as if to discount the multiple glaring issues that make it look like hell on Wayland. It’s like saying a car with misaligned tires is fine for them, because they never go over 25mph.
- I find it ludicrous that people are even suggesting "just use nouveau", when one of the big use cases for Nvidia GPUs is scientific computing / AI workflows and the mesa drivers are simply not an option. Buy a Ferrari? Just use it like a donkey cart and you'll be fine.

I was wondering what all the issues are until I reread and picked up on the nvidia part. That's a shame as its been so stable for a long time on my 5700xt. I went exclusively AMD GPUs when the 5700 was released and aside from early issues with the win drivers, its been such a great experience on Linux. Big motivation was to be able to retire any of my cards as a video stream transcoder (after nvidia said 2 streams maximum, fuck you all) but as I'm not looking for 4k game all these years later those cards are still all I need for 2k.

Been really impressed with amd the last few years, especially compared to NVs mad pricing

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Worked fine for me. Just use mesa.

I love this thread.

Linux users constantly talk about how Linux just works and Windows is garbage, but then half these comments are talking about how you should buy an entirely different computer to make Linux run with FEWER issues.

Windows may have it's problems, but I don't need to buy an entirely new PC to make it work. AMD, Nvidia, Intel, doesn't matter. It just works.

Well Linux just works. Unless if you buy hardware from a company that actively tries to fuck you in the ass for using Linux
What you're basically saying, is like whining that Windows doesn't run on a macbook
- So Linux doesn't "just work". People in here with PC hardware and claiming they have issues. The "solution" is to buy different hardware.
  Guess what? Both of those pieces of hardware just work on Windows.
  Cope, though.
This thread is utterly braindead but nvidia users are not completely out of luck. Use the proprietary drivers with xserver instead of wayland and it works fine (speaking from personal experience). Xserver has it's own issues and will probably be phased out in favour of wayland in the future but hopefully by then, it will be able to support nvidia better.
- Or just use opensource drivers

It doesn't work much better on AMD unfortunately.

It works pretty great actually. Not sure why you'd say otherwise...
- I have a 5700XT and Wayland is basically unusable.