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by severino 1966 days ago
> Nvidia is the major blocker here and there is very little wayland devs can do to fix this

I know, but it can be difficult to understand. I mean, how come we currently have Nvidia drivers for Linux, which work pretty well, and they can't be used for Wayland?
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turminal 1966 days ago
Because the entire linux graphics community uses the same API (GBM) and wayland is mostly built around that, but Nvidia insists on not using it for some reason.
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severino 1966 days ago
Yes, but why is it not a problem for X.org? Can't Wayland be made to work using whatever Nvidia is currently providing? I guess I read it is, and even something (KDE maybe?) made it possible to run Wayland under proprietary Nvidia, so I don't really understand what's the problem.
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mnd999 1966 days ago
As I understand it, they’re not allowed to use it - the APIs are GPL only. They would have to open-source their entire driver.
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