[lin83]

> going so far as to disable NVIDIA's non-free driver support in his wayland window manager/compositor Sway.

AFAIK this is backwards. It was NVIDIA developers that decided to invent their own thing (EGL Streams) instead of supporting Mesa GBM. This meant open source projects had to support a special backend for wayland specifically for NVIDIA harware. KDE also refused to support it until an NVIDIA dev stepped up to do the work for them.

Sway works on Nouveau (the severely limited open source NVIDIA driver) with the wonderfully named flag "--my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia".

[wheelerof4te]

Yeah, it was a badly formulated sentence, thanks for the correction.

Also, that legendary flag was removed in a recent commit:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/commit/b48cb6b0ec1320ad25fd2c...

[lin83]

I'm glad Nvidia made the right call at the end of the day. I like to think that developers taking a stand against EGL Streams contributed to their move to open more of their Limux driver stack.