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--my-next-video-card-wont-be-nvidia
Even if you have an nvidia card, it's... fine now? With a 1080Ti, and Plasma, I haven't really had any issues on the Wayland session, that aren't straight up KDE bugs
Same, am happily using an NVidia 3060 laptop with Wayland+Plasma. Playing BG3 and Guildwars2 on Proton+Xwayland. Got a Plasma panel freezing bug (that's applicable to non-Intel GPU's) that fortunately had a workaround so I'm fine.
So for some use cases at least it's OK. They seem to be working more on Wayland now: In the next driver they're fixing a number of things bothering some people like v-sync and Vulkan on Prime. They also have a ticket in progress for nightlight (GAMMA_LUT support) but not sure what version it's headed for.
They work fine on wayland when they are not being used as a primary GPU. My optimus laptop (680M + RTX3050) works perfect on Wayland because 99% to 100% of the time it actually uses the AMD GPU for the desktop things. It only uses the discrete Nvidia GPU when I tell it to for games and the like. My desktop that is nvidia-only though is another story, last time I tried I got significant cursor glitches after waking from sleep, the night light doesn't work due to the lack of GAMMA_LUT like you mentionned. There were also all sorts of glitches with Blur my shell iirc
I have the laptop set to NVidia Dedicated mode, the integrated GPU is dormant at all times (verified with nvtop), so I don't have any experiences with Optimus. I don't use suspend, I turn it on in the morning, off in the evening.
Oh thank god, this is the first I've heard of them working on GAMMA_LUT support. I've been dying without night light.
Well, they haven't committed to a release number and I don't know what priority the ticket has, however if you use KDE there will be a workaround for night light without GAMMA_LUT for Plasma 6.