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The main blocker for me is still the Nvidia drivers, with Xorg itself having deal-breaker limitations that are never going to get fixed and Wayland on NV still

The main blocker for me is still the Nvidia drivers, with Xorg itself having deal-breaker limitations that are never going to get fixed and Wayland on NV still not being quite there yet. Yeah it would be smoother sailing with an AMD card but that's a pretty big caveat when Nvidia has 78% of the market per the Steam survey.

20after4 3y ago
I've been running a RTX 3060 on Debian 12 under Gnome+Wayland for quite some time now (Nearly a year I think!). It's stable enough that I rarely notice anything to complain about. Sleep and resume works, though resume is quite slow. I can play just about any game on Steam including most Windows-only titles, not to mention GPU Compute workloads. It hasn't always been smooth sailing on Linux but I haven't experienced any significant problems with this platform: - Asus Motherboard - Intel 13700k (not significantly overclocked) - 128GB DDR4 - nVidia 3060 12GB
- jsheard 3y ago
  Most of the issues I've run into are related to multiple monitors, on both Xorg and Wayland. Xorg can't do mismatched refresh rates, or VRR at all with multiple monitors, or HDR at all. The last time I tried Wayland (with KDE) it ended up in a bizarre state where my mouse clicks were going to a different point on the screen than where the cursor was, which was fixed if I disabled one monitor but I couldn't figure out how to get both working at once. As a 4K monitor user I also need 150% DPI scaling to work properly and from what I gather fractional scaling is still very rough on Linux. Hopefully one day, I'm not happy about the direction Windows is going either. But all of the above Just Works on Windows.
  - 20after4 3y ago
    Admittedly I haven't been using a multiple monitor setup since I bought a 43" LG 4k screen. 1.5x scaling is no longer an issue though, as of the latest versions of gnome and wayland, that just works and I haven't noticed any problems with scaling at all (still requires the "tweaks" app because gnome can't be arsed to expose any power-user features in their settings ui).
neglesaks 3y ago
Agreed. I've always found the nvidia drivers to be a pain in the neck and a source of system instability in Linux systems and have actively avoided nvidia hardware.
- raxxorraxor 3y ago
  Historically better compatibility of nvidia and amd hardware for Linux was changing quite often. I believe it to be hugely neglectful for hardware vendors to not invest here. The windows drivers suites is awful as well and I believe it to be vastly neglectful that they don't provide drivers for as many systems as possible. Somebody is sleeping in those orgs as they certainly would have the resources.

20after4 3y ago

I've been running a RTX 3060 on Debian 12 under Gnome+Wayland for quite some time now (Nearly a year I think!). It's stable enough that I rarely notice anything to complain about. Sleep and resume works, though resume is quite slow. I can play just about any game on Steam including most Windows-only titles, not to mention GPU Compute workloads. It hasn't always been smooth sailing on Linux but I haven't experienced any significant problems with this platform: - Asus Motherboard - Intel 13700k (not significantly overclocked) - 128GB DDR4 - nVidia 3060 12GB

jsheard 3y ago
Most of the issues I've run into are related to multiple monitors, on both Xorg and Wayland. Xorg can't do mismatched refresh rates, or VRR at all with multiple monitors, or HDR at all. The last time I tried Wayland (with KDE) it ended up in a bizarre state where my mouse clicks were going to a different point on the screen than where the cursor was, which was fixed if I disabled one monitor but I couldn't figure out how to get both working at once. As a 4K monitor user I also need 150% DPI scaling to work properly and from what I gather fractional scaling is still very rough on Linux. Hopefully one day, I'm not happy about the direction Windows is going either. But all of the above Just Works on Windows.
- 20after4 3y ago
  Admittedly I haven't been using a multiple monitor setup since I bought a 43" LG 4k screen. 1.5x scaling is no longer an issue though, as of the latest versions of gnome and wayland, that just works and I haven't noticed any problems with scaling at all (still requires the "tweaks" app because gnome can't be arsed to expose any power-user features in their settings ui).

neglesaks 3y ago

Agreed. I've always found the nvidia drivers to be a pain in the neck and a source of system instability in Linux systems and have actively avoided nvidia hardware.

raxxorraxor 3y ago
Historically better compatibility of nvidia and amd hardware for Linux was changing quite often. I believe it to be hugely neglectful for hardware vendors to not invest here. The windows drivers suites is awful as well and I believe it to be vastly neglectful that they don't provide drivers for as many systems as possible. Somebody is sleeping in those orgs as they certainly would have the resources.