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This is a followup of my previous post where I struggled to use wayland on 22.04 with nvidia.

After a few more reading and tinkering, I found out that I needed to actively install the more recent nvidia-driver version 570 to have better wayland support, so that's what I did. It was kind of janky as my screen just went black as I apt installed the driver, I had to reset the computer. The next boot, I was running no nvidia driver at all, so I re-did the apt install and it actually completed this time. After a second reboot, I was now running nvidia driver version 570.153.02, yay!

With that out of the way, I proceeded to test those wayland sessions again, starting with KDE Plasma, but I found it is completely broken for me. Most mouse clicks don't even register, and there is a several seconds lag on everything, it's very weird and unusable.

Now for gnome wayland. Well, to my surprise, this works about OK. The desktop is relatively smooth at 144hz. I can't help but feel some extra latency on the mouse cursor but it's still usable. So much so that I actually have been trying it out for a few days now, with mixed results I'm afraid.

While it does work for the most part, it's still not as good an experience as X11 for me, for a few reasons that I found out with daily use :

• I use mumble extensively, and keyboard shortcuts don't work on wayland (https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/5257). I had to set a global gnome shortcut that sends rcp commands to mumble to mute/unmute which was kind of a pain to figure out. I've also lost the "push-to-mute" feature in the process, which is my prefered way to operate the muting/unmuting.
• I like RustDesk for remote desktop, but it doesn't work well on wayland yet either. (it says it has experimental support, but I just get no image at all so it's just broken for me)
• The extra latency is not a lot but I do notice it. I've played some Rocket League, it's decent, but not as snappy as on x11.
• I've had a complete freeze of the desktop yesterday out of the blue, I've had to ssh in to loginctl session-kill my gnome session. This kind of thing never happens on X11, and I can't have that happen too often during work.

For these reasons, I'm back on x11 for now, but it was fun experimenting. I'll give wayland another go later, with better application support I'm hoping.

For some background, my system runs a ryzen7 3770x and RTX 4080 and has be working very nicely on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS for work and games for more than a year now. I use KDE plasma (x11) and when the display it set at 144hz, the desktop experience is suuuper smooth, both in terms of cursor latency and how moving windows around feels. This is something I quickly got used to running a high refresh-rate display on Windows, and I never managed to have the same experience on a linux desktop before installing Pop on this PC. How smooth 22.04 felt on this system blew my mind and was the main reason I finally switched to linux for good at the time.

Now back to today. After the subject of the next release got mentioned recently on this community, I wanted to five it a go. I tried running Pop!_OS 24.04 alpha 7 from a flash drive, featuring the new cosmic desktop and the wayland compositor. I'm sorry to report didn't run that well. I do have the option the set the display to 144hz, and I do see an improvement switching from 60hz for sure, but the mouse cursor still has noticeable input lag and moving windows around is not very smooth. Not unusable to be fair, but definitely not as smooth as I'm used to on x11.

I tried running some video content also, and VRR made the screen flicker during playback, which looked quite bad. Disabling VRR entirely made videos play OK though.

Someone had better success running 24.04 on nvidia? Is it even supposed to be performing well already?

Got greeted with this message today. I've been playing Apex on linux for more than a year. Not sure if this could be related? Is this just me?

I've contested the ban and I'm currently waiting for a response from ea support.

UPDATE : Got an email response from EA today. It's basically a generic message saying that my account was associated with "cheating practices" and so they will not remove the ban.

This is absolutely fucking ridiculous! I've been playing this game since 2020 and have 3K+ hours on record, now this shit happens and there's no recourse ? Fuck this company.

To be fair, I didn't see the option on other lemmy apps I've tried, but I use the crosspost feature a lot on desktop, and would really love that feature on Boost.

The app is really nice tho, thank you for this great first release.