Fushuan [he/him]

As cool as the hot swap thing is, it’s incredible they don’t sell replacement parts, mine has some faulty buttons that post cleaning somewhat work, but I use them almost as much as the click buttons, and having such an easy replaceable part that’s not sold infuriates me to no end.

The famous bad flicker or ghosting of frames is a famous issue in Wayland caused by the desynchronization of frames. Around 2 years ago they patched the driver to let the system tell it explicitly how to sync the frames, and most Linux systems should have the drivers updated to work as such. Since them I’ve not had any flickering like that. A great example was Dragons Dogma 2, the flickering was insane but fixed by the patch.

I’ve been in Wayland since KDE 6.0 and I’ve a 3080. I think that’s like 2 years now. And I game A LOT.

3080 with minor issues. Minor being fucking MH: Wilds is coded like a fucking potato. Funnily enough the performance is better than on windows lmao. But there are some shader issues.

Besides that and some minor hiccups like PoE2 crashing on Vulkan (they let you pick between Vulkan or dx12) before they patched it, games generally just work.

Iirc, explicit sync was an issue for Wayland because how X11 worked meant that the driver had enough info to implicitly do the sync, and I’ve been on X11 using NVIDIA with very minor issues before swapping to Wayland.

In any case, I agree that the drivers’ compatibility has been improved a lot in the last years, I love explicit sync.

Biggest being pretty low for some years now. It works perfectly fine for the vast majority of games. Some heat my GPU more than on windows but who cares.