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I hope this fixes my 7900xtx’s 100w idle power issue…

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have they? VRR support in Linux is still a total crapshoot in my experience. VRR doesn't work at all with multiple displays in X.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I switched to Wayland and everything has been working smoothly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which DE? I am using Plasma and notice some weird things like flickering screen when I am playing YouTube videos in Fullscreen with VRR.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

is this an nvidia moment?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm using Wayland KDE Plasma as well and have no issues (on an AMD GPU)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

X is legacy software that just needs to die.

And don't even get me started on the window and compositing manager with the same name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Using x is the problem here