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Not sure why NIVIDIA should even invest any time in XWayland. It is just a stepping stone towards Wayland, and the retirement of X11
by sd8dgf8ds8g8dsg 9y ago
Not sure why NIVIDIA should even invest any time in XWayland. It is just a stepping stone towards Wayland, and the retirement of X11
- vetinari 9y agoThe reason are: games. All the games (which are of course binary-only, often 32-bit only) released for Linux are linked against SDL 1.2/SDL 2 and X11. It means, that if you are Nvidia owner, you cannot switch to Wayland, unless you are willing to give up gaming (in the current session, at least). On the other hand, who is buying Nvidia cards? Gamers. So by not having OpenGL support in XWayland, they have to choose what kind of session they want to run. Many are of course going to choose X11, thus slowing down the adoption of Wayland, delaying the retirement of X11 and of course losing some benefits of Flatpaks (namely isolation at GUI server).