Title, I can’t switch to Wayland because of nVidia (and because I love Awesome WM).

    • HouseWolf@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      When I tried Wayland on Gnome using my RTX3080 it either wouldn’t load into desktop or if I did it would lead to a bunch of visual glitches.

      Haven’t tried it through KDE yet tho as it requires some backend hackery to even allow you enable Wayland with an Nvidia card.

      Edit: So some people have been able to get Wayland working on Nvidia fine so it’s worth trying out yourself, Tho I’ve personally not had any luck.

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        Backend hackery? You just install it and it works

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          Alright so after seeing your comment I decided to give it another try.

          I’m running Plasma 5.27.7 which is what came when I installed when I grabbed EndeavourOS. But it doesn’t come with the Wayland session included so I grabbed plasma-wayland-session from the AUR, And same issue as last time I can’t launch it from the login screen.

          I know people have gotten it working fine but on my hardware for whatever reason I’ve had little luck.

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          Yeah Wayland support apparently doesn’t come shipped with the KDE install on EndeavourOS, Last time to tried to get it running was on an older version of Ubuntu a few months back.

          I’ll install it and try it out now tho thanks.

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        I mostly use fedora. I never had an issue with my 1080 or laptops 1060… But those are old now…

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      1. I love my AwesomeWM setup. Unless someone completely rewrites it, it will never work with Wayland (as far as I have read the gh issues).

      2. I need this PC to “just work” and I have seen a lot of problems with Wayland and Nvidia drivers, top-quality gaming is a secondary on this one so X11 has been the choice.
        Though I am aware stuff is getting better, should probably try it anyway