This is complicated. Firstly outside of Wayland Nvidia works pretty great and has worked great for me 21 years on the other hand the amount spent is kinda irrelevant using different hardware is often actually the correct advice. Often though the logical move is use Windows on your effectively Windows only laptop and if you want to run Linux buy something compatible next go round.
Some hardware just isn’t supported and given hostile to indifferent oems it will always be so
Already compressed files like video don’t meaningfully compress more. Compression isn’t magic.
It’s interesting actually. There are both games with insane budgets that cost more that than triple A games in years past and incredible tooling and assets available for very modest amounts of money + incredibly powerful computers very little. It’s possible for some games to be made for less than ever before AND some to be made for more.
I just now learned he was not
A collection of folks ranging from moralizing open source fans, Wayland aficionados, and AMD fanboy. They also like to blame any Linux problem the user might be having on Nvidia use even when the user hasn’t actually mentioned Nvidia. Daughter got chlamydia? Shouldn’t have gone with Nvidia.
I’m sitting here on a modern computer. It is connected to 2 4K monitors and a 1080p monitor. Everything is scaled perfectly despite the 2 screens being very different DPI. There are applications to perform all the normal bog standard operations from managing files to watching movies not to mention apps for creating applications, making movies, editing photos, making music, playing tens of thousands of games The full range of software that is available for Linux runs under X less a microscopic number of items literally designed to replace pre-existing X software for instance sway to replace i3 or a foot a terminal emulator for wayland.
X works on stable slower moving distros where wayland presents a more buggy and less feature complete experience because basic functionality requires recently released updates whereas stable distros may be a year or more behind.
X works well on Nvidia hardware which represents over 80% of discrete cards and is literally the only professional GPU anyone uses for any usage other than just driving displays.
What “typical uses” do you imagine aren’t covered? The problem with wayland proponents is not their enthusiasm its the fact that they lie so much.
Fully functional: Performing all required functions. X is fully functional now. It was fully functional in 2003. It will be fully functional in 2032. It’s feature complete and receiving security updates as recently as 30 days ago and is liable to receive them as long as Canonical and Red Hat have supported customers using this or around 10 years from Ubuntu 22.04 and RHEL 9.
Wayland proponents having failed to convert people to using Wayland by version of superior functionality have no resorted to claiming the technology used by 60% of users either doesn’t work or will stop working real soon now.
https://linux-hardware.org/?view=os_display_server&period=-2
Narrator Voice: It will keep working for 8-10 years and most people have no compelling reason to switch immediately.
It’s now getting to the port where its sort of fully functional. In several more years maybe we’ll be to the point where users don’t need to learn about the plumbing like X was 14 years ago.
Nvidia’s drivers for X have always been very good. Their drivers for wayland will be good before Wayland is
Linus didn’t say they didn’t work he doesn’t like their failure to play nice with others. You can’t use that cop out.
I have a 1080. The drivers are great under X. I’ve been using nvidia hardware since 2003. Driver support has always been pretty good.
You misremember. Back in 2010 the command was optirun. Although more than one solution exists under the hood user friendly distros (not arch) generally had you right click on the game in your menu and select something like run with nvidia. Throughout the last like 14 years the 2 dominant things were optirun foo and prime-run foo
How about I just continue to use X which will be getting security updates for the next decade and was feature complete many many years prior.
This is great unless you need feature A that only X or Y and B that is only available in Z
gaps was merged a while ago
I have it was boringly normal
Nvidia drivers continue to work great under X 2003-2024 for me. I’m sure Nvidia will work well under Wayland long before I bother to switch. The same folks who are always shitting on Nvidia seem to all own AMD hardware and many have spent years lying about Wayland being totally ready in 2015-2022 after they spent years lying about AMD GPU drivers being great in 2008-2013 when both were largely unusable in that time frame. Since few of the haters actually own any Nvidia hardware I presume they get their information from stroking each-others ego on reddit/lemmy/mastodon.
i3wm is a 15 year old feature complete window manager not a JavaScript framework. It isn’t dead if it hasn’t had a new release this month.
The last commit was 4 days ago the last release 4 months or so ago. It has again seen continuous development for 15 years.
Gnome has decided to never support wlr-layer-shell that is 40% of your userbase right there.
If your hardware isn’t supported what are people supposed to say? Gosh I’m sorry volunteers didn’t donate more free work to make that shitty laptop work let me now assemble a strike force of expert programs to crack that problem by next week? Labor is a finite resource especially free labor.