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I've been daily-driving Plasma Wayland for probably 3 years by now and I have had very few problems overall. Even given the poor state of Wayland with Nvidia (my work machine uses Nvidia graphics), I don't really have a lot of complaints. It generally just works.

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This type of comment just seems totally unreal to me to the point where it's making me angry.

I have a laptop with a nvidia card and nothing works. From the installers crashing, windows freezing, full desktop freezes, awful performance, awful battery life under Wayland, every glitch under the sun from minor lines appearing on the screen to potentially physically damaging glitches like rapid flickering, and every other issue you could possibly imagine: it happened.

I mean it happened in like the week total combined that I was testing GNOME/KDE. Probably if I spent any more time on it my computer would explode?

Meanwhile X11 with i3 just fucking rocks. Smooth and stable like nothing else.

Thats weird, how did you install the Nvidia drivers?

Well, I'm certainly sorry for your awful experience, but I do get along pretty good on Nvidia plus Wayland. I have noticed that graphics do tend to be less glitchy when they are drawn to the screen with the iGPU, but in general I don't have a ton of graphical problems. When I do I just feel mad at Nvidia, because I think they are the real problem here.

I'm sorry to raise your blood pressure (;p), but this laptop (bought over 3 years ago) hasn't seen anything else other than KDE Plasma, the first couple of months with X, but with Wayland since then. I have seen none of the issues you've listed, nor did I notice any performance or battery life degradation with the switch, quite the opposite -- while the battery life seemed to have remaining pretty much the same, performance (specially with multi-monitor setups) is much better. My laptop also has dual GPUs (discrete Nvidia and integrated Intel) and I notice no differences between running with nvidia completely turned off and in optimus hybrid mode.

My only issue is, ironically enough, also with multi-monitor setups, where the layout and main monitor selection seems unstable and sometimes changes when waking up from sleep. I've been following KDE's development (through Nate's incredible blog[0]) and I'm pretty sure these problems have been fixed with the new 6.0 release.

But yeah, you seem to be particularly affected by bugs, sorry for the experience. What Nvidia card do you have? And driver versions?

[0]: https://pointieststick.com

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