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I don't like the framing in this meme. “Wayland doesn't run on Nvidia” implies that it's a Wayland problem, but it's actually Nvidia that fails to develop a modern, working driver.
"I can't believe Linux doesn't work with Adobe Photoshop!! Linux is shit and the devs need to fix their broken OS!"
That still sounds like a Wayland problem, just not one that they have control of
It is an Nvidia problem. And we need to insist on Nvidia being the problem until they give in. Their lack of wanting to take responsibility for distributing graphics cards on the market by not developing working drivers and not even letting the community fix it by open sourcing their driver is not something we should tolerate anymore. They pissed people enough at this point over the years, with their lack of participation in an driver problem-free environment on Linux, so they should and they will take the blame.
Exactly. If Nvidia started completely half-arsing their Windows drivers, nobody would blame Microsoft.
Yet here in Linux land, it's apparently the Linux devs' (many of whom aren't even paid) fault, as opposed to Nvidia's.
Honestly, Nvidia's marketing power is incredible. They make dogshit drivers and people point the finger at the OS developers rather than at Nvidia.
If Nvidia started completely half-arsing their Windows drivers, nobody would blame Microsoft
This is happened with Vista, amongst other problems.
Their "dogshit" drivers work great on X and did so back when ATis hardware was both closed source and hot garbage on Linux and they were utter trash all the way from early 2000s to 2014.
Ok. I'm not really interested in how things were in 2008. I'm interested in the here and now, which is where Wayland is widely used and increasingly used by the day, Nvidia's drivers are a mess and AMD's aren't.
Person A: Man these Nvidia drivers keep causing issues
Person B: Umm ackshully Nvidia drivers used to be better than ATI drivers in 2008 ☝️🤓
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.
Yeah but X11 is unsuitable for modern computing.
The same folks who are always shitting on Nvidia seem to all own AMD hardware
Many do... because they know Nvidia is plagued with issues. Why would they buy hardware they've had/will have issues with?
I had to get rid of my 1080 Ti because of how unusably bad the Linux drivers were. AMD has ran great, out of the box, on X11 and Wayland. Wayland has been great, used it for years with no issues outside of with Nvidia hardware.
Maybe when Nvidia gets their shit together and have drivers that work properly ill give them another go.
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.
Nail on the head.
Lol
Until they give in what? What in your fantasies does the open source community of randos have over Nvidia again? Will you withhold your 0.1% of their profits after cost of develoment is considered? If you had paid even the slightest attention you would note the progress in open source drivers supporting newer hardware.
Nvidia has a closed source driver. Wayland tries to support it but Nvidia keeps changing how the driver works every week. So it's impossible to deliver quality with Nvidia shit.
Why are you lying? Large software projects change slowly and stuff like GPU drivers work according to standards and interfaces. The bugs experienced aren't even on the open source software side. The bugs in the general case are largely in the nvidia side and being fixed on that side albeit not briskly.
For sure, but unfortunately, that's still a Wayland problem.
Users don't care whose problem it is. They can trivially log out and log in and select X changing GPU implies throwing away hundreds or thousands of dollars of hardware. Over 80% of discrete GPUs are Nvidia hardware.