I’m a seasoned Linux user, but mostly for servers and services, not really for desktop use.

I’ve dabbled in some desktop distros on my personal rig a few times in the past, but ultimately due to specific games, I’ve gone back to Windows.

I recently installed Arch and KDE. Upon initial boot I noticed it was defaulted to Wayland. Every time I would try to log in it would just go to a black screen then cycle back to the login screen. Picking X11 would bring me to the desktop.

Basic Specs:

  • AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3D
  • nVidia RTX 4090

I have been doing some reading into this and it looks like the issue is due to the proprietary nVidia drivers, but there are solutions to work around this.

I know nothing of Wayland other than its supposed to be more secure. My question is, is it worth the time/effort to get Wayland working? I primarily use my system for gaming. X11 seems to be working just fine for me right now.

Forgive me if I’m using some of the terminology wrong, still learning.

EDIT - Selling my gpu is not an option. I knew ahead of time that AMD has superior Linux support, but the 4090’s performance can’t be matched by anything AMD has. Maybe next upgrade I’ll go back to AMD if they have the top performer.

  • kixik
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    2 years ago

    all electron stuff mostly doesn’t work, neither wine stuff…

    • bzImage
      1·
      2 years ago

      just learned about electron… is that thing where they glue a chrome + node.js ? that thing is bad… !!

      • kixik
        1·
        2 years ago

        yeah, it is, :( Unfortunately it’s what teams, slack, signal-desktop, jitsi, freetube, and several other desktop applications use for multi platform development (so whatever developed for the web, and android keeps working everywhere)… I think this is bad, but unavoidable if you don’t find suitable alternatives (the proprietary ones are even unavoidable if your work requires them).