terrible linux poll, will cause a civil war
@julialuna if x11 is backward compatible, then maybe. But I still voted Wayland, since it has been around for sometime now. I think NVIDIA is already supporting Wayland.
@mrinalsaurabh @julialuna I thought they didn't. Did they contribute to nouveau or something?
@mrinalsaurabh @julialuna I have a nvidia card. I bought it with the expectation that I'll use it in video editing with Nouveau drivers. It's supported by nouveau but the performance is poor. I'll go as far as to say it's the same as without the GPU.
Nvidia proprietary drivers are not supported by Wayland as far as I know. So I can't say Nvidia is doing great with Wayland. AMD on the other hand has their entire driver open sourced and works out of the box.
@adnan360 @julialuna The more people use it, more chances of NVIDIA investing into it.
@adnan360 @julialuna Yeah thats what. Number of people using Linux and buying NVIDIA graphics card is very limited. So they just don't care.
@mrinalsaurabh @julialuna They should listen to their customers, no matter how small they are. They won't, but AMD did.
There are other problems. Nvidia doesn't even disclose data crucial to preparing a FOSS driver, which is not ideal. I wouldn't do that if I was in Nvidia's position. AMD is already ahead, so they should join in. It will not hurt their business as far as I can say. And in turn they will have more happy customers.
@mrinalsaurabh @julialuna Well, that's fine for some cases. But I think Nvidia needs to see what the competition is doing. AMD already supports Wayland, but Nvidia doesn't. That's bad for them in a competitive market.
If their proprietary drivers can't support Wayland, they should contribute to Nouveau. This way they can stay in the competition. Besides their business is hardware based. So they won't lose anything by providing their driver source code.