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I am one of those people that has been watching Valve's support of Proton and Steamdeck, and already familiar with Ubuntu for development... and now considering

I am one of those people that has been watching Valve's support of Proton and Steamdeck, and already familiar with Ubuntu for development... and now considering leaving Windows behind for good. So far my experience with both development and gaming is good, however I find that in order to control the NVIDIA GPU (a GTX 1080) - I need software like GWE to set the power limit, and fan curve... and for whatever reason these do not work in Wayland. I wish I could use Wayland though - I did notice the desktop feels smoother. Can we switch now? Are there forks of GWE for Wayland? Or do we still need to wait months/years until these tools show up? PS: if I upgraded my GTX 1080 to an AMD card, would I have apps to control power limit / fans on Wayland?

karma_fountain 4y ago
I have a GTX 970 and the Wayland experience was full of stuttering and glitchy windows. Had to install x11.
Ridir 4y ago
Experiences vary. Without having to do any extra hacks Wayland has run flawlessly on my ancient GTX660Ti for years.
bloopernova 4y ago
I left windows behind when my preview program instance was upgraded to windows 11. I loathed the advertising that was encroaching into what felt like every aspect of the GUI. I moved to Fedora and haven't looked back. This coincided with me no longer playing a lot of PC/Windows games, so I haven't missed many of them, and there's a great many that work great in Steam/Proton.