3 ms·
While I respect Drew's right to keep Nvidia hardware unsupported, doing so cuts out a huge chunk of Linux video game players users. I therefore find it unsurpr
by _bin_ 6y ago
While I respect Drew's right to keep Nvidia hardware unsupported, doing so cuts out a huge chunk of Linux video game players users. I therefore find it unsurprising that video games have a number of issues that day-to-day use cases don't. Even though this is AMD, lack of Nvidia support keeps Xorg as the default for video games, and this means worse AMD support too.
- OtomotO 6y agoPersonally I don't see how supporting the proprietary nvidia drivers would help my situation as I am using Mesa (and Noveau is supported afaik (?!)) but I assume there is a kernel of truth in there that a lot of people cannot/won't even consider sway because they are on proprietary nvidia stacks. - I wrote before the edit -
- ubercow13 6y agoThe main thing up to now keeping Xorg the default for video games was nVidia's lack of Xwayland acceleration support, which made gaming on Wayland largely impossible regardless of wlroots.
- toggleton 6y agoAnd if i uunderstand it right is xwayland acceleration in work for the 470 Driver Release https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/587#note_799560 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...
- kaba0 6y agoIt’s not like a decision based on he doesn’t like nvidia — they would pretty much have to rewrite the whole rendering pipeline for a completely separate model. It simply won’t happen unless the kernel guys can do something and bring nvidia prop drivers to behave well with the kernel abstraction wlroots (and thus sway) sits on top, or someone(s) reimplement the whole thing yet again (and then maintain basically two codebases with twice the bugs)