[mouacyk]

Still ricing on my secondary, dual-bootin since 2004. Excitedly awaiting release of 470 NVidia drivers on Linux.

 

[mouacyk]

I'm not as read up these days on the latest nvidia prop drivers, what is exciting about 'em?

For those stuck with NVidia GPUs and want to use Wayland, all 3D rendering is currently being done on CPU with a software driver. With Fedora 34 going with Wayland as default, it forced NVidia to pick up their game and actually write some code, so 3D rendering will be done on their hardware and maintain performance. It's taken 10 years to get NVidia to move, and do anything meaningful for Wayland. EGLStreams was half-assed and partially only works for desktop rendering, because it wasn't really a response to anything in particular. This time, DMA-BUF is their reaction to being left behind.

 

[mouacyk]

Should be dropping any day now. Fedora 34 beta is out already. Sounds like Ubuntu 21.04 beta should be out already also.

A 465 driver was released for better WSL support and gpu passthrough recently, if that's any indicator.

 

[mouacyk]

The NVidia XWayland work can be tracked here (where 470 was first mentioned):
Xwayland: Support hardware accelerated rendering with the proprietary NVIDIA driver (!587) · Merge Requests · xorg / xserver · GitLab

 

[mouacyk]

Plasma 5 has been a decent experience for me as well, enough so that when I left Gnome 2 a few years ago, I never looked back. Once Gnome 40 is available for Gentoo, I will install it beside Plasma 5 though and try it out. With QT taking the high commercial road, it would be good to have a fully open-source alternative to fall back on.

I also have black screens in various applications, like Firefox. I believe this is due to the software rendering backend not implementing some needed features.

 

[mouacyk]

XWayland is hardware-accelerated now with NVidia! Some fullscreen games/apps still show black screen, but windowed is all working. Even Firefox with WebRender is fully working in Wayland. I'm this close to dumping X11.

 

[mouacyk]

For casual gamers and users, wayland should be quite usable now, even on NVidia. As of kwin-5.22 and recent revision of 470 driver, windowed xwayland gaming is working quite well. Fullscreen gaming still results in blackscreen, but is reportedly working in git versions of kwin. Currently, there are issues with widevine in Firefox, even though the browser is fully accelerated now with WebRender. Some chromium-based apps like vscode don't render at all.

Middle-click pasting works!

 

[mouacyk]

Black windows in Wayland on NVidia drivers are fixed: 440852 – Black or vertically mirrored window with some XWayland apps on nvidia 470+ drivers
Need to manually patch KWin.