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Good for you, but that's merely anecdotal evidence. From the limited data that is available, it appears that more than half of the desktop Linux installations r

Good for you, but that's merely anecdotal evidence. From the limited data that is available, it appears that more than half of the desktop Linux installations run nvidia GPUs. Wayland is pretty much out on those. And the rest needs to run a distribution that supports wayland and activate it. So wayland simply hasn't reached its goal of replacing Xorg by a long shot.

kaba0 5y ago
Wayland Gnome (and plasma) runs on nvidia gpus as well. But the fact is, linux, the kernel doesn’t support nvidia cards without proprietary blobs, hardly anything to do with Wayland.
vetinari 5y ago
> From the limited data that is available, it appears that more than half of the desktop Linux installations run nvidia GPUs. Where did you get that data? Nvidia doesn't even have that kind of market share (Intel absolutely rules there).
- mqus 5y ago
  I also had doubts but there are statistics (arguably not representative) that seem to confirm this: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun (See GPU drivers and add(might not be the best idea, I know) the nvidia numbers...) It might be machine learning stuff which heavily leans into nvidia hardware
  - vetinari 5y ago
    Just adding them all goes way beyond 100%, so it really is not the best idea. In general, the market share (as in GPUs sold, in total, for all systems, not just Linux) was around 70% Intel, 17% Nvidia and 13% AMD. This was before GPUs turned into inobtaniums, so I guess Nvidia and AMD didn't improve their positions much. Yes, there are ML guys on the Linux side, but that could be compensated by gamers on the Windows side, so I assume that if anything, Windows would have more share of Nvidia than Linux. Miners don't really care for desktop. There is a place where Nvidia achieved significant share - it has 70% in Steam hardware survey. That is to be expected, gamers are heavily biased towards Nvidia.

kaba0 5y ago

Wayland Gnome (and plasma) runs on nvidia gpus as well. But the fact is, linux, the kernel doesn’t support nvidia cards without proprietary blobs, hardly anything to do with Wayland.

vetinari 5y ago

> From the limited data that is available, it appears that more than half of the desktop Linux installations run nvidia GPUs. Where did you get that data? Nvidia doesn't even have that kind of market share (Intel absolutely rules there).

mqus 5y ago
I also had doubts but there are statistics (arguably not representative) that seem to confirm this: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun (See GPU drivers and add(might not be the best idea, I know) the nvidia numbers...) It might be machine learning stuff which heavily leans into nvidia hardware
- vetinari 5y ago
  Just adding them all goes way beyond 100%, so it really is not the best idea. In general, the market share (as in GPUs sold, in total, for all systems, not just Linux) was around 70% Intel, 17% Nvidia and 13% AMD. This was before GPUs turned into inobtaniums, so I guess Nvidia and AMD didn't improve their positions much. Yes, there are ML guys on the Linux side, but that could be compensated by gamers on the Windows side, so I assume that if anything, Windows would have more share of Nvidia than Linux. Miners don't really care for desktop. There is a place where Nvidia achieved significant share - it has 70% in Steam hardware survey. That is to be expected, gamers are heavily biased towards Nvidia.