So you are living in an illusion of choice, while your options are obviously determined by the big corpo that you relied on for getting that card

(Saying that, I got an NVIDIA card like a dumbass too)

My 16G RTX-3080 Mobile works well with Niri

I’ve found it varies from compositor to compositor:

• Plasma? Mid on Nvidia
  • Constantly I have issues and I can’t even solve them myself
  • I have plasma working on Ubuntu Studio on a laptop I use for music making which has some Nvidia card, and that works fine, but not on my main Arch install
• GNOME? Works okay until you want to do something with portals like screen recording
  • Even if I use a different portal, GNOME overrides it.
• Hyprland? Works amazing EXCEPT for random tiny issues
  • Also I had to do a lot of tweaking
  • Every now and then some program will not start or something
  • But generally pretty good
• Sway? Garbo support
  • Nvidia may not even boot. Lots of tweaking. Lots of issues
• Cosmic? For wayland - solid
  • For everything else… it needs a little work still
  • I also tried Cosmic Shell + Niri, and it just kinda didn’t work in some ways like theming, but Wayland worked great.
  • Also performance with multi-displays is kinda poor, or at least it was when I tried it.
• But Niri? Perfect
  • Absolutely FLAWLESS Wayland. EVERYTHING works
  • And now that I have DMS there’s so much done for me. It’s really a great system

Since I love the scrolling aspect of Niri as well, it works out well that it has the best Wayland support. 10/10 project. I love it

When I was on X11 still I was primarily an i3 user, and the transition to Hyprland and Niri has been generally positive

But yeah, I’ve worked with Nvidia on Linux for several years now on multiple machines. I’m finally throwing in the towel whenever I buy a new PC. AMD all the way. It’s just better on Linux, even on X11

Didn’t they straighten out Wayland support? I thought this was a thing of the past as of 555, but I also haven’t run Nvidia myself in years and years.