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I've been having my own fun trying out NVK on Guix System so I can't give you specific instructions (assuming you're not using Guix), but I can tell you what you need and maybe someone else can chip in on how/if you need to do anything else on your distro:
nouveau.config=NvGspRm=1
-Dvulkan-drivers=nouveau-experimental
flag.A few notes:
FLATPAK_GL_DRIVERS=host
); however, there's a bug that causes the Steam Flatpak to not work when doing this. The mesa-git-extension Flatpak exists which can also be used to replace Mesa runtimes, but it had issues building with NVK so it's currently disabled.The only package I'm aware of at the moment (other than my hacked-together Guix package) is available in the AUR.
While NVK is indeed Vulkan-only, it also isn't, thanks to Zink, which is a Gallium3D implementation for Vulkan. Gallium3D implements OpenGL, among other things. NVK + Zink has already been reported to be substantially faster than the old Nouveau Gallium3D driver.