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I've been awaiting sway as well. My big issue has been rotated displays, since I have two vertical monitors that this simply wouldn't work with.

After that there's also the Nvidia proprietary drivers not supporting Wayland, but I'll be switching to a FOSS driver stack with AMD by the time 1.0 hits.

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I got a Fury to try to show support during the initial releases of AMDGPU. I'm not sure if they noticed but it gave me a good reason to ditch my gtx 770 :D

AMDGPU is really good now, and the parts that are proprietary (AMDGPU Pro) are eventually (hopefully) going to be folded into the FOSS side soon.

AMDGPU Pro is actually built on top of the open source driver, so if AMD wants and can commit its features into the open source driver it shouldn't be that hard. I don't know why they decided to build the proprietary interface if AMDGPU was working so well, maybe 3rd party licensed code?

I believe it does have to do with 3rd party licensing. Last time I checked the freesync portion of the driver was only in AMDGPU-Pro, which is what I'm looking forward to the most.

My big issue is Redshift not working in Wayland yet.

https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/260

Redshift works on sway. Use this fork: https://github.com/giucam/redshift

Really? I'll give it a try. Thanks.

It's sort of sad that nvidia does actually support wayland, but only on embedded side. Can't say how good the drivers are but I've worked for a good while for nvidia tegra's & wayland and they well. There was one issue one the drivers that I had access to: mmaped memory leaked file descriptors but besides that, performance was better than other hw in similar price range I was provided with.

As a consumer, I feel that Nvidia’s Linux support is shoddy at best. It seems like they do the bare minimum to get it to work. Some things work best with the proprietary drivers, some work best with the open source drivers. Then there are weird limitations on both, that don’t exist on other platforms.

Recently I finally managed to get 4K at 60fps over HDMI 2.0a working on Linux. For some reason the Nvidia drivers (both) only advertised 4K at 30fps, where as on Windows it works out of the box. I had to manually add my monitors EDID (which is extracted from Xorg in the first place), and now I get 4K 60fps HDR.

I hope AMD continue their rejuvenation, as it’s good to see Intel and Nvidia have some competition again.

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