NVIDIA today launched four new Linux graphics drivers, yes four. 545.29.02 is the bigger one with all the new stuff, but they also launched 535.129.03, 525.147.05 and 470.223.02 due to newly disclosed security issues.
If you don’t use any XWayland apps, yeah - this is still a major blocker unfortunately assuming they didn’t make any significant changes between the beta from a couple of weeks ago and now.
Funnily enough, I can’t say that I saw it any games that I was playing (and they’re certainly Wayland native) while I was on 535 - it mainly showed up in chromium based apps.
When I tried the 545 beta (I haven’t tried the stable yet but I doubt it’s changed) however, Firefox (when not having MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND set - XWayland mode) started having it pretty badly, as well as IntelliJ which can’t reasonably run without XWayland (it’s being worked on) and that’s when I had to go back to 535 as I use multiple JetBrains IDEs for work, making it an instant deal-breaker for me. Never even made it to games at that point, but I would be surprised if WINE/Proton games weren’t being affected by it.
So, can we finally switch to Wayland?
If you don’t use any XWayland apps, yeah - this is still a major blocker unfortunately assuming they didn’t make any significant changes between the beta from a couple of weeks ago and now.
Thanks for the reply. I guess there is still some time for me. :)
So no. Pretty much all games use XWayland.
Funnily enough, I can’t say that I saw it any games that I was playing (and they’re certainly Wayland native) while I was on 535 - it mainly showed up in chromium based apps.
When I tried the 545 beta (I haven’t tried the stable yet but I doubt it’s changed) however, Firefox (when not having
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLANDset - XWayland mode) started having it pretty badly, as well as IntelliJ which can’t reasonably run without XWayland (it’s being worked on) and that’s when I had to go back to 535 as I use multiple JetBrains IDEs for work, making it an instant deal-breaker for me. Never even made it to games at that point, but I would be surprised if WINE/Proton games weren’t being affected by it.