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The situation has been changing rapidly since summer. According to my research, if you combine their desktop and cuda bugginess (for 7900 XTX) they are approach

The situation has been changing rapidly since summer. According to my research, if you combine their desktop and cuda bugginess (for 7900 XTX) they are approaching the nvidia level of bugginess on linux, which is surprisingly quite high (much much higher than what it was say 5 years ago when nvidia just worked). One just needs a glimpse at their forum https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/145 https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-graphics/145 to gauge the situation. I just bought a 4090 and the desktop experience I get is much worse than what I had with the gpu embeded in the Ryzen 7950x: Wayland doesn't work, in Xorg there is tearing in mpv, alt-tab sometimes breaks in gnome. When I launch memory intensive cuda kernels the whole desktop becomes unresponsive. The drivers spews Xid errors in dmesg and breaks for certain applications, such as embergen.

gymbeaux 3y ago
I’ve stopped trying to use NVidia on Linux. I will usually have the display plugged into a Ryzen APU and have the NVidia GPU headless for compute stuff.
- nullifidian 3y ago
  There are some positive movements though. For example the addition of explicit synchronization that the nvidia driver needs to function properly into DRI3 / Xwayland https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/967 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests... is active as of right now, and it seems that it will succeed. The corresponding mutter issue https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3300 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3300
  - gymbeaux 3y ago
    I will say my experience with Nvidia + Wayland has been better than most it seems. It may be because I typically use Fedora which sticks to pure GNOME while Ubuntu and Pop_OS bastardize GNOME. Still, my main complaint is that moving windows around and so on is not smooth. I forget what the term for it is… the window gets jagged and it’s like parts of it are moving at different speeds.

gymbeaux 3y ago

I’ve stopped trying to use NVidia on Linux. I will usually have the display plugged into a Ryzen APU and have the NVidia GPU headless for compute stuff.

nullifidian 3y ago
There are some positive movements though. For example the addition of explicit synchronization that the nvidia driver needs to function properly into DRI3 / Xwayland https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/967 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests... is active as of right now, and it seems that it will succeed. The corresponding mutter issue https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3300 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3300
- gymbeaux 3y ago
  I will say my experience with Nvidia + Wayland has been better than most it seems. It may be because I typically use Fedora which sticks to pure GNOME while Ubuntu and Pop_OS bastardize GNOME. Still, my main complaint is that moving windows around and so on is not smooth. I forget what the term for it is… the window gets jagged and it’s like parts of it are moving at different speeds.