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Xorg barely works on nvidia (source: me) vsync requires a compositor to work, and even picom needs a very specific combination of flags to get vsync to work. Ch
by IiydAbITMvJkqKf 5y ago
Xorg barely works on nvidia (source: me)
vsync requires a compositor to work, and even picom needs a very specific combination of flags to get vsync to work.
Chromium cannot gpu accelerate video playback.
On rolling release distros, most major kernel updates leave your system broken, because nvidias out-of-tree driver can't build against new kernel versions.
If nvidia stops supporting your old gpu, like they just did with Kepler, you're screwed.
The problem with nvidia on linux isn't wayland, it's nvidia.
- jgb1984 5y agoI have used strictly Nvidia gpus, on debian Linux, for 20 years, using the binary drivers, and I have none of the issues you describe. It just works, very well, stable and fast. Xorg is an amazing piece of software and combined with openbox it does exactly what I need.
- kaba0 5y ago> Xorg is an amazing piece of software Based on what? Because I rather believe its maintainers..
- jgb1984 5y agoMaybe you didn't read my comment? Based on having used it for over 20 years.
- kaba0 5y agoThat’s something about its stability. It says nothing about its fundamentally bad abstraction of modern graphics stacks, that can’t be fixed.
- josefx 5y agoUsers don't care about the underlying abstraction. The points raised before at least covered features that users cared about, even if they where presented without context, vsync worked fine on any NVIDIA desktop system I used, especially without compositor.
- md8z 5y agoUsers do care when the bad abstractions cause bugs that linger and don't get fixed, of which there are quite a lot...
- loxias 5y agoXorg works just fine with Debian and Nvidia (source: me). Some longish (5-10) years ago it got so stable that I managed to stop thinking about it, because it Just Works. Even across upgrades. Your problem lies not with Linux, Xorg, or Nvidia.