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Damn lies. Nvidia works like shit on Wayland and newer kernels.
Working fine for me on Fedora 40 with a 6.12 kernel. You need to ensure your desktop environment is modern and supports explicit sync. KDE added support in Plasma 6.1, so Plasma 6.1 and Nvidia driver 560 or above should have no issues. I don't use GNOME but they added support in 46.1 as far as I know.
One of my favourite underrated things about Wayland is that I could finally disable pasting when clicking the mousewheel. That's so ingrained into XFree86/X11 that it's impossible to disable.
(disabling it only affects apps that use Wayland)
It's actually working mostly fine me now with KDE 6.2.1, kernel 6.11.3, and nvidia 5.60.something. I get janky scrolling in firefox but apart from that it's been fine.
I found that Firefox scrolling was janky even with X11 when using a mouse. You can turn off smooth scrolling in the options, and turn off kinetic scrolling in about:config (
apz.gtk.kinetic_scroll.enabled
).Kinetic scrolling off and smooth scrolling on is so much better. Thanks for the hint.
On Arch+KDE Plasma it's nearly perfect for me with a 3070 RTX