While dealing with X is annoying in general, nvidia replacing so much infrastructure was just a case of NIH. Their excuse might be a wish to have as common a co

While dealing with X is annoying in general, nvidia replacing so much infrastructure was just a case of NIH. Their excuse might be a wish to have as common a code base with Windows as possible. In fact, none of the GPU vendors with closed-source drivers are providing kernel mode-setting, which would be essential for Wayland.