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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeh, I'll wait until the bugs are ironed out and my distro (mint) determines it's stable. No need to start asking for troubles when everything is working smoothly.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Then there's ppl like me: dual 4k with Wayland on Nvidia in Gnome with VRR. Hoorah!

Just waiting for explicit sync and I will be complete.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He's only the second person I've seen to claim working dual monitor on wayland with Nvidia. All my attempts have lasted 5 mins max before something drove me back to X11.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Same, hence my extreme disbelief.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have three monitors and a NVIDIA GPU. I've only been able to get them to work properly on Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Dunno, I used to run 3 monitors until I got an ultra wide, now I'm down to 2. Never had any issues getting the displays to work in either. It was mostly graphical glitches and screen tearing that drove me back to X11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It might be because one of my monitors is actually a graphics tablet. GNOME's scaling just didn't work in either session such that all three monitors were scaled correctly, but KDE's Wayland session was able to handle it properly. Or at least, the least bad.

I also use Wayland because X11 had some lag when operating the desktop normally (I guess the pros call it "frame-pacing issues"?), whereas only XWayland programs will flicker for my NVIDIA GPU. And games aren't part of that category. I don't use a lot of XWayland applications anymore, so I actually haven't seen the flickering for a while. The Steam client is the absolute worst, but... I've been doing my gaming on Windows lately 😬

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

What about PRIME, though? I'd like to give it a shot, but I only just ironed out my setup with triple-gpu(all different vendors) and a ton of sweat, I'm afraid it's going to be back to square one with wayland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Same. I don't see why people need to argue about it or make a conscious decision about it anyway.

(My distro determined it was ready to use a while ago, so I've been switched over for a long time now. Indeed it's working fine, and I think I hardly even notice the difference.)