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

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 months ago
      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

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      11 months 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          311 months ago

          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.

      • @tostiman
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        11 months ago

        Kubuntu 23.04 comes with wayland preinstalled and it works with my Nvidia card

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          211 months ago

          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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        111 months ago

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