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by TillE 958 days ago
Wayland not working with NVIDIA is a massive deal-breaker.

I've used Linux desktops on and off for the past 20 years, and it's incredibly frustrating how everything is perpetually in a state of semi-brokenness as they move on to the Next Thing. I still think about the early years of KDE4, which were a horrible regression from the stable and usable KDE3.
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Qwertious 958 days ago
>Wayland not working with NVIDIA is a massive deal-breaker.

To state the obvious, though: only if you use Nvidia. And honestly, the Linux community not going out of their way to support an uncooperative hardware vendor is a good thing for everyone who doesn't use that vendor; it reduces scope.

Agreed on the frustration of chronic semi-brokenness though.

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earthling8118 956 days ago
I agree; this was a complete deal breaker for me. I had no choice but to ditch Nvidia as a result. It's been really great since then. Especially not having to deal with their shenanigans when I want to do something simple like update my kernel.
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