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On the fractional scaling side, precisely Wayland's advantage is that it works much better there than in Xorg.

Regarding the rest, I run an Nvidia laptop under Wayland since early 2022 and it's been working flawlessly. It's true that I'm using one of the cleanest, most forward thinking distros out there: Fedora. On Ubuntu it had way more issues than on Fedora, though.

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Ubuntu and Nvidia are difficult. We have a Linux work station and attempt to get an Nvidia card working (drivers anyway) failed. Its was confusing and even those with more skill/experience couldn't make it work. PopOS (which is a fork of Ubuntu) with Nvidia ended up working for us. Though I'm not sure if its X or Wayland.

Pop is X, they'll move to Wayland soon.

I am not sure what happened in the Ubuntu case, but maybe you guys should try Alma, RHEL or CentOS?

If Pop works well enough, power to you! I just believe it's not a standard in the industry.

Because its Ubuntu based, we've had no issues installing/running Ubuntu software on it.

I guess that’s a good way to think of Federora, forward looking. I always liked it for other reasons, but they do have just the right amount of forward focus. Ubuntu has a very different community to try and satisfy, so has to move slower.

Yes, I agree. I understand why RH splits Fedora and CentOS Stream.

My past experiences with SuSE, Fedora, and Red Hat, RPM distributions, eventually experienced a corrupt repository that in each case took hours to fix. That's when I settled on Ubuntu in 2006 and haven't looked back.

I heard bad things about RPM before, but that was long ago. To be honest, I think by 2006 most issues were already over, and YUM was mostly on par with APT. Don't know what might happen in your specific case.

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