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As mentioned in the OP, we now have wl-clipboard. :)

Furthermore, it's proprietary NVIDIA drivers Wayland isn't supporting, not NVIDIA itself. AFAIK nouveau works just fine. There are many great reasons for not supporting the proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

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Noveau sucks, unfortunately. Performance is bad, and you can't load custom firmware like you could with older cards (signing problems). I respect the effort the developers have made; any other driver would be of excellent quality had this much effort been put into it. But Nvidia keeps on being a jerk about it. Easy to say don't support Nvidia, but at the present moment they have the fastest consumer cards on the market.

I run Wayland on my hypervisor OS and pass through my NVIDIA GPU to a VM with proprietary drivers in order to take full advantage of my card.

Do you know of any blog posts that would discuss a setup like this? Sounds pretty interesting.

Alex Williamson has an excellent VFIO blog that discusses the basics of GPU passthru. [0]

I think the instructions are meant for Debian however and there are some differences in the commands you need to run. If you use a Redhat distro and/or you want some further optimization tips I'm also happy to work you through the process.

https://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/05/vfio-gpu-how-to-series-par...

Awesome, thank you!

> at the present moment they have the fastest consumer cards on the market

This is becoming a lot less true. Unless you really want to run the latest games (in which case you'll be on Windows anyway), nvidia is on equal footing as AMD nowadays on Linux. AMD has made a lot of efforts and progress the past few years, and them playing nicely with the OSS community makes a big difference.

My next computer will have an AMD card&processor.

Sway was the reason I chose a Radeon card to my office workstation. Been running Sway from Github since beginning of this year and it is very stable, fast and great experience, supporting my old i3 configuration as-is.

Now I know my next home gaming computer will also have a Radeon card.

P.S. Put a monthly donation for Sway. Really appreciate the work!

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