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by smoldesu 1241 days ago
As a NixOS user I'll generally agree, as long as there are still options for people who want to use Pantheon on a more traditional OS. Immutable roots are cool, but feel like a novelty when so much software breaks under it. Great to have as an option for sure though.

> Hopefully by the time it is, NVIDIA's driver will have better stability with Wayland compositors.

I think Nvidia's support is pretty much complete. Plasma fixed almost all of it's Wayland/Nvidia bugs (as far as I can see on my desktop) and Mutter has an Nvidia rewrite on the roadmap IIRC. Still not perfect, but the new drivers have stopped 95% of the major glitching caused with the old ones.
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jchw 1241 days ago
We still have to contend with the implicit sync issues when dealing with NVIDIA drivers; there has been work to untangle the mess there, but it's not done yet to my knowledge.

Context: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/06/09/brid...

Edit: also a NixOS user, BUT: I am suggesting something more like SteamOS with ABRoot. It's not exactly a solved problem, but I think that future solutions should be focused on not needing to modify the root to deal with things like drivers and system configuration.

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kitsunesoba 1241 days ago
Hoping that mutter rewrite comes sooner than later. Currently running GNOME on a Fedora/Nvidia box and it's frustrating to lose features like Night Light when running Wayland with proprietary drivers, as is the glitchiness of Electron apps under GNOME+Wayland+Nvidia (for instance, VS Code is a flickery mess with that setup).
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smoldesu 1241 days ago
Here's hoping. Things are much smoother on KDE for me, the developers really hauled ass to get the Plasma session working nicely. As of 5.26, I think the only remaining major issue is that it doesn't keep track of monitor configuration, which is due to be solved in 3 weeks with the release of 5.27.

I got Electron apps working nicely by forcing GPU acceleration, but even still I prefer to use the web versions of Discord and Spotify. Firefox has really nice Wayland support, replacing most of my Electron apps besides VS Code and Obsidian.

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