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Let's talk about #Linux on the desktop, #Gnome and the state of #Wayland in 2024.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've just had to switch back to X11 from Wayland on Nobara, because I couldn't get Sunshine to work no matter what I tried, my windows were occasionally flickering black, and my taskbar kept freezing. So I guess I'll wait a little bit more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What hardware do you have? I have all AMD, and it works just fine on Nobara on Wayland.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Unfortunately, NVIDIA. I was buying a new PC half a year ago, and only started even considering to make the switch to Linux few months after that, so I am at a pretty unlucky point where I just had recently spent a lot of money for new-gen PC, but without knowing that I should really go for AMD.

I will make the switch to AMD as soon as it's justifiable, but I'm too lazy to deal with second-hand resale and it's hard to justify a new GPU when I still have the current gen, but from wrong manufacturer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I totally empathize. I did the same thing at the end of 2020 and just switched to an AMD GPU last month.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I had numerous problems with Wayland when I had an NVIDIA video card. Since I switched to an AMD video card, it has been a blissful experience. Wayland now works perfectly.

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 9 months ago

You could sell your old one and buy a new one. I think people are still buying up Nvidia GPUs like crazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did you file a bug report with the Sunshine devs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Ooh, you are right, I can actually file bug reports or try to fix it myself now that I switched to FOSS from Windows. Tbh that didn't really occur to me, since I was switching only like a month ago. I'll look into it, so far I suspect that it's actually covered by one of those troubleshooting cases mentioned in their FAQ, and I'm not really confident enough to start recompiling libraries with additional flags. Especially since I'm on Nobara and don't want to break anything, AFAIK that OS is pretty customised from the start and figuring out what I can safely touch isn't something I have the guts for yet.