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I'm joining the Wayland club on Nvidia (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by KuroeNekoDemon@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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I run proprietary Nvidia drivers as well and Wayland runs so much better than Xorg now that I'm permanently coming over to Wayland. I'm extremely happy rn with Wayland

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[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

It should be noted that for some reason, people in Linux communities seem to never watch hardware accelerated video content, because AMD 6000 and 7000 have HUGE issues regarding video decoding on Linux, Im talking full system crash or full system freezes after 30 minutes of watching videos on youtube (and thats without mentionning the video freezing for a few seconds with the audio still going, and then catching up, and refreezing a few seconds later). It caused me to install Chrome which does not have hardware acceleration yet to watch youtube if I wanted to have an uptime of more than 1.5 days.

These issues have only been reported on AMD's iGPUs though, so I think dedicated graphics cards should be fine. But anyways, for this reason alone, I would just recommend Intel chips for most users, especially now with the new Intel Gen 1 Ultra or whatever its called, the GPU is basically on-par with AMD and the CPU is very close as well.

[–] ruabmbua@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Hm weird. Running 6000 series igpu with hw decoding on, no issues.

On desktop 7000 series dGpu, also no issues.

There were some Frame drops in the past, but current kernel + Mesa has no issues for me.

[–] kmacmartin@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was seeing those issues on my 7840u, but they were completely resolved with the testing firmware for phoenix here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/8044

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am monitoring this issue mainly, and I saw recently they seemed to have a fix, but I am not really interested in patching my drivers because its my daily driver computer

[–] kmacmartin@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From what I understand, the updated firmware image has passed all the tests and will be included in an upcoming release. My system has been rock solid for a few weeks now with it running, but if you aren't up to dropping the blob in yourself it sounds like you'll have it officially soon (assuming you run a distro that keeps those up to date).

[–] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Good to know, thanks for the info!

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Chromium recently got support for hardware acceleration. Link

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I had those before. Tought the card was bust somehow, turns out it was driver issues. You do run into quirks here and there, too.

AMD drivers are much better but are not the utopia some users say they are.