[bpye]

I sort of agree but for different reasons.

I’ve never managed to get my GTX 1070 working on Linux without any caveats, though currently I’m closer than I’ve been before. If you’re happy using X11 life is relatively easy, though you probably end up needing a compositor to solve tearing - and if you have mixed refresh rates you’re seemingly out of luck even then.

Wayland is better with mixed refresh rates, and now mostly works. I say mostly as XWayland is still broken - you have to disable GLAMOUR and rely on software rendering for X applications. This is where I’ve currently settled as most software I use is native Wayland anyway.

Supposedly this’ll be fixed with a protocol change for explicit sync - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...

Of course if you have a newer GPU that can take advantage of Nvidia’s new open source kernel drivers with Nouveau and you don’t need CUDA this is all irrelevant.