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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 81 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Nvidia users: *Chuckles* I'm in Danger

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I tried Gnome with Wayland and an Nvidia card just yesterday, it worked fine so far with the proprietary drivers. NixOS not Fedora though.

[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 6 points 8 months ago

I use Wayland on NixOS too and everything works fine except slight flickering in games.

I think it'll be fixed soon though and I can fully move to Wayland.

[–] RedNight@lemmy.ml 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can confirm. Wayland with new nvidia GPU is currently unusable even with the proprietary drivers. F39

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I am currently in F39 Wayland with proprietary nVidia drivers and I have not experienced any issues. (Laptop Quadro P3200)

Edit: this was a useless comment. OP specified new, my laptop is an old boy.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

They said new nVidia GPUs. Your Quadro P3200 is five years old now.

[–] RedNight@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was talking about one of the new ones released this past January

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Shit, my bad. Totally skimmed that word.

[–] RedNight@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

All good, brother. I wasn't that clear

[–] MXX53@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago

That's my bad. I missed the word new. Skimmed right over it.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

If it's not usable they just won't use it.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I though Nvidia was getting better

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

It’s horrible. My laptop with hybrid graphics works ok except for a brief flicker every time it wakes from sleep. It’s not a big deal. My desktop with dedicated nvidia is a hot mess - constant flickering. Steam is borderline non-functional and there are all kinds of graphical glitches on the desktop. I’m stuck with X11 on that machine.

[–] Lenni@fosstodon.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

@redcalcium @e8d79 The noVideo experience on Linux dramatically improved, especially with the latest driver versions and modern DIVORCE GPUs. We also kinda have to accept the death of X11

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 points 8 months ago

I sure hope so. Just the other day I updated to nvidia v550. Got a blank tty screen right after login to gnome/wayland. Rebooted the computer and login to gnome/x11, no issue. Logout and relogin to gnome/wayland, somehow no issue anymore. I guess this kind of random issues will persist until one day Nvidia decides to play nice with Wayland.