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    [–] Morph9@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Guilty as charged

    [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    So you are living in an illusion of choice, while your options are obviously determined by the big corpo that you relied on for getting that card

    (Saying that, I got an NVIDIA card like a dumbass too)

    [–] Morph9@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    ....more like a gifted old laptop, but yeah.

    [–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 18 hours ago

    So not your choice either XD

    [–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    My 16G RTX-3080 Mobile works well with Niri

    I've found it varies from compositor to compositor:

    • Plasma? Mid on Nvidia
      • Constantly I have issues and I can't even solve them myself
      • I have plasma working on Ubuntu Studio on a laptop I use for music making which has some Nvidia card, and that works fine, but not on my main Arch install
    • GNOME? Works okay until you want to do something with portals like screen recording
      • Even if I use a different portal, GNOME overrides it.
    • Hyprland? Works amazing EXCEPT for random tiny issues
      • Also I had to do a lot of tweaking
      • Every now and then some program will not start or something
      • But generally pretty good
    • Sway? Garbo support
      • Nvidia may not even boot. Lots of tweaking. Lots of issues
    • Cosmic? For wayland - solid
      • For everything else... it needs a little work still
      • I also tried Cosmic Shell + Niri, and it just kinda didn't work in some ways like theming, but Wayland worked great.
      • Also performance with multi-displays is kinda poor, or at least it was when I tried it.
    • But Niri? Perfect
      • Absolutely FLAWLESS Wayland. EVERYTHING works
      • And now that I have DMS there's so much done for me. It's really a great system

    Since I love the scrolling aspect of Niri as well, it works out well that it has the best Wayland support. 10/10 project. I love it

    When I was on X11 still I was primarily an i3 user, and the transition to Hyprland and Niri has been generally positive

    But yeah, I've worked with Nvidia on Linux for several years now on multiple machines. I'm finally throwing in the towel whenever I buy a new PC. AMD all the way. It's just better on Linux, even on X11

    [–] Morph9@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

    Maybe ill check niri next. Any good distro to test it with?

    [–] themoken@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Didn't they straighten out Wayland support? I thought this was a thing of the past as of 555, but I also haven't run Nvidia myself in years and years.

    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    My work PC has a 3080 and the latest nvidia-dkms in the Arch repo. I haven't had a single display-related issue for probably a year.

    [–] Klajan@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

    With the same setup I had constant issues with Variable Refresh Rate, monitor sleep and actual sleep...

    Nvidia on Linux did not want to work well for me

    [–] twinnie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

    I had an NVIDIA card when I switched to Linux about two and a half years ago and I’ve never had an issue AFAIK.

    [–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

    NVidia on wayland is fine now. I've been running Fedora 43 for about a month on my gaming PC, even the boot splash works at native resolution

    [–] NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 1 day ago

    I was on 580 and had issues on CachyOS and Bazzite and Garuda Linux KDE Lite with an RTX 4080.