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Virtually every modern laptop with a dGPU runs Nvidia, so Wayland is still a no-go there too. (And no, if Nouveau is an option for you then you probably wouldn

• reisse 3y ago
  Linux on the laptops with Nvidia dGPU is miserable enough without X/Wayland discussions. I beleive people who are buying laptops to install Linux mostly use ones without dGPUs.
  • adrian_b 3y ago
    I have been using Linux on laptops with NVIDIA dGPUs (from Dell and Lenovo) during the last decade without any problem whatsoever. Not only nothing was miserable, but the NVIDIA dGPUs have allowed applications that are still impossible with GPUs from other vendors, e.g. professional applications using OpenGL that expose bugs in the drivers from other vendors or that have a too low performance on other hardware, or computational CUDA applications that benefit from the many useful libraries provided freely by NVIDIA. For simpler applications AMD and Intel are fine, but unfortunately there are still many cases when there is no alternative for NVIDIA. NVIDIA may be criticized for the greediness of their pricing policy or for the slow progress towards providing an open-source kernel driver, but claiming that they offer a miserable Linux experience is completely false. Very few companies provide a similar level of Linux support, despite the fact that there are some kernel developers who continue to try to sabotage the work needed for maintaining the NVIDIA Linux kernel driver. NVIDIA provides much more free Linux tools for their GPUs than any other GPU vendor.
• clhodapp 3y ago
  Most Wayland compositors work on Nvidia now, though