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Is there any sense of if/when nvidia's proprietary drivers will work with Wayland? I built a new machine with an Nvidia 1080Ti less than 4 weeks ago. I'd rather not have to switch...

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You are making bad choices as a consumer by spending all of that money on flashy new graphics cards from Nvidia. I'm not interested in supporting a company that treats Linux as poorly as Nvidia does. Buy cards that have good open source driver support. The burden is not on sway to support Nvidia, but on Nvidia to support sway. AMD and Intel seemed to manage it just fine.

Unfortunately, no. It's entirely up to NVIDIA to fully support KMS and Wayland, since they make a proprietary out-of-tree driver, and it doesn't seem likely in the near future.

This is, IMHO, the biggest advantage (other than hardware cost) that AMD has over NVIDIA right now.

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