Title mixed up Wayland and Nvidia :) I don’t think you typically get a new GPU assigned on the fly as you select one window manager over another :D
Not with that attitude!
I was confused at first, I thought it was trying to say whether the driver defaults to the Nvidia proprietary, and I thought that was already the case
Well this is nice. One downside is that folks who play games without VSync can’t turn it off in Wayland as far as I’m aware.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
As of this past week the change is now in place for Ubuntu 24.10 daily users that will find Wayland-by-default when using the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver.
The proprietary NVIDIA graphics driver has been the hold-out on Ubuntu in sticking to the GNOME X.Org session out-of-the-box rather than Wayland as has been the default for the past several releases when using other GPUs/drivers.
But for Ubuntu 24.10, the plan is to cross that threshold for NVIDIA now that their official driver has much better Wayland support and has matured into great shape.
Particularly with the upcoming NVIDIA R555 driver reaching stable very soon, the Wayland support is in great shape with features like explicit sync ready to use.
Canonical’s Daniel van Vugt of the Ubuntu desktop team made the change last week for the GDM session manager to drop their NVIDIA-prefers-X11 patches so that NVIDIA Linux users will find Wayland being used by default.
Updated Revert-data-Disable-GDM-on-hybrid-graphics-laptops-with-v.patch to ensure Nvidia 5xx drivers always get Wayland as the default unless there’s a stronger reason why it won’t work (like modeset has been disabled on the kernel command line).
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We’re really losing the reputation with this one.
I’ve been using Wayland on Ubuntu 24.04 with Nvidia’s 555 driver and I have yet to see something seriously break because of it. 545 was unstable as hell, but 555 has been running perfectly. I’ve even got a working external display on my laptop with the 555 drivers, something I’d previously given up on with Wayland.
Plasma is much further along (having stuff like HDR and VRR working for instance) but things have gotten a lot better quickly with Nvidia+Wayland.
Did you try a GPU that’s 10 series or older?
My GPU is a 10 series, actually. Same generation as my laptop’s GPU, though that’s technically a Quadro I think.
Oh ok then. I heard 10 series and older had more issues than newer ones
Losing good reputation or losing bad reputation?
Losing a little bit of the remaining good reputation as a good and well documented beginner distro.
I think Wayland is at point now where I’d be comfortable recommending it to beginners. I’m on nvidia and just switched myself in the past month because I felt like it was finally ready.
To me this is actually a good move for Ubuntu’s reputation.
Wayland is pretty good but without the drivers (that are not provided by default on Ubuntu) you will have fractional scaling issues and probably other glitches
The noveau drivers don’t work with Nvidia cards on x11 either.
If you didn’t know, fractional scaling isn’t available on X11 so there won’t be issues if a new user tries to turn it on
