I am potentially going to be able to put Linux on my work PC soon, have been using it on my personal PC and laptop quite happily with hyprland ontop of NixOS

Thinking of using NixOS for my work machine as well, however I don’t want to use hyprland or even Wayland as I need this machine to be stable and reliable (Nvidia GPU)

Is I3 still the best option for this or are there better alternatives? (leaning towards I3 ontop of KDE)

I’m also somewhat tempted to just go GNOME with the forge extension as it seems the most reliable, though the tiling on that extension is far from perfect

  • krimson@feddit.nl
    03·
    10 months ago

    Wayland on nvidia is perfectly stable. Been using Hyrpland without issues for the past year or so.

    • flashgnash@lemm.eeOP
      4·
      10 months ago

      Wayland on Nvidia is not stable.

      I’m using hyprland which adds another layer of instability as hyprland itsself can be ropey with Nvidia

      Even with gnome Wayland I have had a number of issues though, electron stuff is dodgy at best, hibernation doesn’t work (might not be Wayland specific)

      Applications don’t resize properly sometimes and crash more often

      I think it entirely depends on your setup, I’ve had separate issues with Nvidia Wayland across my PC and laptop

    • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      10 months ago

      quit fucking saying that! I still get random flickering on the desktop and flickering in games on a 1080. X11 is the only thing that lets me actually play games onmhe thing

    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
      2·
      10 months ago

      Maybe for you. Kernel 6.6, Nvidia driver 545 (also tried 535), RTX 3080, GNOME or KDE Plasma, two WQHD 165 Hz monitors. Got flickers in certain applications (for example Steam or some Electron apps), apparently related to how long they need to draw.

      Along with Baldur’s Gate Vulkan API halving FPS compared to Windows/AMD on Linux, or getting black models in DX11 (DXVK), certain games straight up flickering or showing other glitches.

      YMMV of course, but I find it hard to believe people have literally zero issues unless they have a very limited use case for their system.

      I switched to AMD for Linux and while it’s not perfect either, it’s so much better.