I tried Wayland again on my Vega and I see that the input delay dilemma is solved, but I do want to buy a new GPU and thinking Nvidia. Also a year ago I tried a GT 710 I had to see if the situation was that bad with general support. Since then I have seen that the situation is way better now. Last time I had Nvidia on Linux(for games) was with the GTX 800m series years ago and that was obviously on Xorg. What is the experience with RTX cards gaming on Wayland right now?

  • anotherchangeling@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been running The Meme Distro for about 6 years now, preferring i3wm (an X11 window manager). I’ve got an AMD processor, and a current-gen NVIDIA GPU, and I run the 545 drivers. Additionally, I had some disused Plasma config lurking in disparate places all over my home folder.

    Just the other day, I decided to give `plasma-session-wayland` a try. It didn’t go well at all, with my primary user. I could get a black desktop and a cursor, and eventually my startup application windows began to show themselves. I was able to summon krunner and launch Steam, then launch a game (Satisfactory). It played, but would occassionally reproject an older frame, giving a bad experience. No amount of removing user-level configuration files would remedy the problem.

    I created a new user and launched Plasma with that user, and I didn’t have any of the graphical glitches I’d experienced with my previous fella. Didn’t go as far as to install Steam and a game, for that user. Instead, I tried to clean up Plasma’s config files and restore my primary user to a “clean slate”. That failed miserably. There’s no consistency to the locations of Plasma application configs, even for the core programs.

    Went back to my precious i3 and played “full-screen” games in tiled windows, happy as a lark.