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I'm on Nvidia (2070 super), Arch, X11... It's been literally years since I've had to worry about drivers. Install the proprietary drivers (follow the arch wiki)

by gpm 3y ago

I'm on Nvidia (2070 super), Arch, X11... It's been literally years since I've had to worry about drivers. Install the proprietary drivers (follow the arch wiki) and they "just work" in my experience. I'm not trying to say you couldn't have had issues, but I am saying I'd caution people from seeing that and assuming that they will have issues if they try this.

pyr0hu 3y ago
Yeah same, wanted to write a similar comment. I have played Diablo 4 , Cities, a ton of emulators with the proprietary nvidia driver and never had an issue. Update works 95% of the time, sometimes I have to do a manual 'mkinitcpio' but otherwise it's all working
lll-o-lll 3y ago
OK, but he specifically mentioned “it means I have no Wayland”. So does Wayland work?
- Affric 3y ago
  I can launch wayland gnome sessions but they be janky as hell. It’s almost got me about to switch to KDE when I get a little time.
- gpm 3y ago
  I haven't used Wayland in years and have no real intention of trying to again until x11 becomes unusable so I can't answer that. My initial interactions with waylands, years ago, including attempting to write a compositor from scratch, left a very source taste in my mouth and the strong impression that wayland was going in the wrong direction. Some things have no doubt changed by now, and a lot of cost has been sunk into it, so I'm deleting my rehashing of some of those concerns as no longer relevant, but I just have no interest in being an early adopter of it.
Affric 3y ago
I am not saying I am having heaps of issues. But for some reason the new open nvidia driver didn’t like my set up yesterday. mkinitcpio log shows it used the hook properly and then I did it manually. Proprietary one works fine and I am chill with that. But to reiterate, it’s just the the summary doesn’t go into enough detail. It’s just pumping up the tyres. My comment is not a criticism or evaluation of gaming on Arch or Linux or nvidia. It’s about the article.

by gpm 3y ago

pyr0hu 3y ago

Yeah same, wanted to write a similar comment. I have played Diablo 4 , Cities, a ton of emulators with the proprietary nvidia driver and never had an issue. Update works 95% of the time, sometimes I have to do a manual 'mkinitcpio' but otherwise it's all working

lll-o-lll 3y ago

OK, but he specifically mentioned “it means I have no Wayland”. So does Wayland work?

Affric 3y ago
I can launch wayland gnome sessions but they be janky as hell. It’s almost got me about to switch to KDE when I get a little time.
gpm 3y ago
I haven't used Wayland in years and have no real intention of trying to again until x11 becomes unusable so I can't answer that. My initial interactions with waylands, years ago, including attempting to write a compositor from scratch, left a very source taste in my mouth and the strong impression that wayland was going in the wrong direction. Some things have no doubt changed by now, and a lot of cost has been sunk into it, so I'm deleting my rehashing of some of those concerns as no longer relevant, but I just have no interest in being an early adopter of it.

Affric 3y ago

I am not saying I am having heaps of issues. But for some reason the new open nvidia driver didn’t like my set up yesterday. mkinitcpio log shows it used the hook properly and then I did it manually. Proprietary one works fine and I am chill with that. But to reiterate, it’s just the the summary doesn’t go into enough detail. It’s just pumping up the tyres. My comment is not a criticism or evaluation of gaming on Arch or Linux or nvidia. It’s about the article.