I’m on KDE Plasma with Nvidia and Wayland with the proprietary 530 drivers but really the experience (due to Nvidia’s own fault) doesn’t feel polished at all although it’s very smooth, but the fact of having to be constantly switching between Xorg and Wayland because one or another program doesn’t behave the way it should in Wayland (frameskipping, blank screen, tearing) and I was thinking if using the open source drivers could fix something or make it worse.
I remember testing the open source drivers some time ago and running the Terraria compilation for Linux was not working well at all, and that being a native Linux compilation, maybe the Proton version would have worked better.
I’m on an old GTX 970 using the 530 proprietary drivers. I have since switched back to Xorg due to various issues with wayland, mostly lack of support for virtual KVM (not Nvidia’s fault). I have never tried the open source drivers but this discussion makes me curious to do so.
Also, obligatory Nvidia, fuck you 🖕.
Which DE are you using? I’m on KDE Plasma and honestly the Xorg experience is simply disgusting, with Wayland it’s much more usable but I suffer from the inconvenience that some programs work, others don’t.
Gnome and other DE work fine, but I’m so used to Plasma that I would find it hard to leave it. 🥲