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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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[–] x2XS2L0U@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use i3 on a thinkpad p50 with hybrid graphics (Intel + nvidia). Works sort of stable if I force the use of the dedicated card, but I'm getting like 1,5h of battery.

Video acceleration seems to work most of the times, but for a few weeks I have problems with picom freezing my screen, capping fps in games and video. Any ideas? It took me hours to have it running sort of smooth, so I'm hesitant to try out sway and ruin my daily setup

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Why are you forcing i3 to use the dedicated GPU?

AFAIK sway doesn't work with proprietary Nvidia drivers

[–] x2XS2L0U@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd love to run hybrid graphics with free drivers, don't get me wrong.

I also love running steam games and video acceleration and with my previous setup it was mostly unstable. My current setup just works, with minor effects like reduced battery times and picom bugs.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm just trying to learn the reasoning behind your decision. I ran i3 on multiple devices, the newest one being a t480, and never had any issues with the integrated graphics.

Are you also forcing picom to use the dedicated GPU?

Seems like a waste, unless you're playing one of those games that runs better on the integrated than on the dedicated.

[–] x2XS2L0U@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My setup is 4k on two displays. The Intel GPU can't handle them on 60Hz I guess. There is a thinkpad dock involved as well, so I think I'm stuck with HDMI and the dedicated gpu. I tried a lot of things :/

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My setup is 4k on two displays

on a 9 year old laptop, and you even game on it, God damn dude!

I3 shouldn't really be impacted AFAIK, but I'd drop picom completely just to save some cycles. It's not like you have resources to spare on aesthetics.

[–] x2XS2L0U@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

I like transparent terminals and vsync. That's my only reason for picom