I understand that nvidia support for wayland is lacking, but I know it’s possible.
For context, I was using sway 1.8 for a while (no official support for nvidia). It was working almost perfectly, only minor issues. After the update to 1.9, I get constant flickering.
I can downgrade to 1.8, but the fact that 1.8 was working tells me that it is possible for a window manager to work well for nvidia. The problem is the sway team does not want that headache (understandably so).
Are there any alternatives that work well with nvidia?
Does hyprland work for your setup?
I tried it about a year ago. I don’t remember why I left it, but I think I did have a couple issues with it related to nvidia. I’ll try it again.
Get the Nvidia 555 beta drivers or you’ll have flickering. There’s Nvidia specific config in the hyprland docs as well. In addition, if it’s a newer card make sure you disable the onboard firmware via Kernal params.
I have been using hyprland for a while and just switched to using my Nvidia card yesterday. Been running well so far.
If you’re hopping distros at the same time, CachyOS should just work out of the box with Hyprland.
I have had a few issues with Hyprland / nVidia, ultimately making me abandon hyprland as much as I absolutely loved it.
I couldn’t work with TexStudio and Electron apps were at best buggy.