Quoting: LoftyBut i have found a way to fix this or rather, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. I installed gnome 3.36 (latest that mint/ubuntu will goto) as an experiment and ran wayland (again not the latest version)

Not the latest version is a huge understatement. Gnome 3.36 was like 3 major *tunnels* ago and then some.

And you're even using that with Nvidia, no less? Just upgrade your distro and move away from LTS, you'll get (almost) the latest and greatest from Gnome while also being able to actually use the nvidia drivers and play games.

edit: Ubuntu 21.10 and derivatives are also lagging behind and using Gnome 40 which is still not ideal, but usable on Nvidia. 41.2 and upwards adds Nvidia GBM support.

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In other OBS related news, it seems they're going to be moving their official Linux packages over to Flatpak rather than just having an official PPA for Ubuntu.

Awesome news. A special thanks to Georges Stavracas for his contributions to Flatpak and OBS.

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Quoting: ridgeI really dislike how Valve relies so much on DXVK, but on the other hand I can acknowledge that adding native Vulkan to the Source engine would proooobably be a big undertaking in lots of old spaghetti code.... maybe, I don't know.

But from a "stupid user who doesn't know what the Source engine source code looks like" point of view, I really wish they could just implement Vulkan natively.

The thing is, they already did just that with Source2! They just never bothered to update any of their pre-Dota2 games to use it and just opted to backport certain Source2 features instead.

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Quoting: NaibThats what I thought... I won't go near GNOME/KDE. You can launch sway/wayfire with 470 but it is slightly laggy and equally Xwayland is laggy... the missing part was obviously Nvidia accepting GBM so this mesa release closes it but yes... a new nvidia driver is needed. hopefully something soon to replace 470.57.02, maybe nvidia was waiting for mesa

You can't launch wlroots compositors at all with 470, not without relying on the wlroots-eglstreams fork anyway.

Thankfully, driver-side support is supposed to be coming soon enough.

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Quoting: NaibIs the missing piece for Wayland and Nvidia ?

We have the driver (470). We have Xwayland (21.1.2). But there was still something missing

You can use Gnome and KDE on Wayland with Nvidia ever since 470, but you're doing so using the suboptibal EGL Streams backends while also being limited to these two compositors.

Mesa merged external GBM support so that Nvidia can finally work as expected on every sincle compositor, but we're still missing a new driver release adding Nvidia-side support for this.

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Quoting: ZlopezI'm personally running an ostree [External Link] distribution...

Update your PC distro specs and join the Silverblue GoL masterrace my dude :wink:

I didn't know there is a Silverblue in PC distro specs. I will update it :-D

I asked Liam about adding it not too long ago, don't know whether it registers as "Fedora-based" or "Other" in the base distro section though.

edit: Upon further inspection it's separate, but no big deal.

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Quoting: ZlopezI'm personally running an ostree [External Link] distribution...

Update your PC distro specs and join the Silverblue GoL masterrace my dude :wink:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeMeans me, as a user, may not wish to muck with a non-distribution driver.

Except distros often package these in their official repos as testing packages.

Quoting: slaapliedjeI am sure once it is marked Stable...

rofl man, if your distro flair is any indication then you'd be stuck with nvidia-driver-418.197.02-1 according to Debian Buster's package indexing [External Link].

Pray tell how you update your ancient, but stable, driver. Do you pin packages from testing/sid or is that also too much of a cheat for you?

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Quoting: slaapliedjeConsidering this is still a beta driver... nah.

Which means absolutely nothing, unless you're a distro maintainer.

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All that teasing before they finally release the 470 series.

Just how many 46X releases has it been at this point ever since they announced driver-side support for accelerated XWayland would arrive with the 470 drivers?

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