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by jokethrowaway 503 days ago
Nvidia support is still poor (at least on latest cards), I'm forced to use X or I get tons of glitches. I need the proprietary drivers for machine learning.

Not that I mind particularly, X is fine and everything works as expected. I can even have the integrated (amd gpu) take care of the desktop while the Nvidia gpu does machine learning (I need all the vram I can get, the desktop alone would be 100-150mb of vram) - then I start a game on steam and the nvidia gpu gets used.

Funnily enough I had wayland enabled by default when I installed the system and I didn't understand why I was getting random freeze and artifacts for weeks. Then I realized I was not using X11

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nvidia has been great on wayland since 550; Everyone running CachyOS is on 570 now
Isn't this an issue with Nvidia not releasing open source drivers ?