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      It didn’t work well for me, I tried Wayland recently with both nouveau and proprietary driver and encountered bugs. Had to switch back to X.

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          2080ti with sway/wlroots. Distro is Gentoo.

          I had everything set up properly, nouveau devs confirmed it was a bug (I was getting a kernel warning when using a certain OpenGL application)

          The proprietary driver had unbearable flickering/screen tearing on Wayland.

          I will say that besides that one application the nouveau driver worked great but unfortunately it was a deal breaker for me.

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            Wait— doesn’t sway require you to enter my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia to launch?

            I didn’t think sway would ever work with Nvidia.

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              With nouveau you don’t need any special flag, with the proprietary driver you have to use --unsupported-gpu or something like that

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            Nouveau sucks for anything post 1000 series, it’s just not there yet.

            I’m on Gentoo and my 2000 (and 3000) series card is perfect on Wayland under KDE Plasma.

            Give it another go - I’m pretty sure your issue isn’t “Wayland” or NVIDIA".

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              I’m an i3 user so sway was the easiest way to transition for me, so I think I’ll just wait for sway to improve with regards to NVIDIA drivers before I give it another shot.

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        Wayland is a windowing system, sort of. It’s a replacement for X11. It changes how graphics are done on Linux machines, and has a more modern and secure approach which offers better performance and efficiency. It notoriously doesn’t work very well on NVIDIA, because NVIDIA for a long time didn’t allow the community to write drivers for Linux and didn’t want to put effort into making it work correctly. This has changed recently but there are still some headaches with certain desktop environments or window managers.

        This is a video from 2 years ago that tries to explain Wayland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1BoZnekkyM

        It’s a lot more usable now than it was when this video came out though, I run it every day.