Yep, my first Linux distro after finally abandoning Windows. There’s so much to explore! I wanna try some new desktop environments like Gnome, maybe try out Mint or something else Debian-based some time, and either once I get an AMD GPU or it gets more stable with Nvidia, try out Hyprland :3
The customizability of all this is awesome and I love it so much so far! The only problem is, as you’d expect, certain games don’t work well :c
ah crap, sorry to hear that. i bet it’s games with EAC.
i don’t recall the last time i had issues with a game, but then again i don’t play the kinds of games that might require EAC and also don’t have an nvidia gpu.
I think it’s mostly a problem with rolling updates. Things like Deep Rock Galactic worked perfectly fine for a while and then suddenly the initial screen was entirely black for whatever reason, every time I tried to start it. The game is still playable though, so it’s mostly a minor inconvenience. Also, with Team Fortress 2 I have to first switch on Proton, then swap back to native, because it doesn’t start at all with proton and if I try to just start it without swapping back and forth, it turns off both my side monitors and changes the middle one’s aspect ratio to 5:2 for whatever inexplicable reason. That happened after an update as well. Only one game is entirely broken so far, the rest is just minor inconveniences and I’m waiting for new updates to maybe fix them again.
Hyprland has NVIDIA patches specific to them by the way, they have a guide for how to set it up for Arch users on their wiki. There’s surprising number of people using Hyprland with NVIDIA because of it.
What about game support though? I’ve heard Proton/Wine stuff in general is a bit less functional on Wayland/Hyprland and with how on the edge it is for some games, I’m not in the mood to give more functionality up for better aesthetics
No, XWayland on Hyprland (and wlroots in general) has major issues with NVIDIA. My understanding is that it should be fine for Wayland apps, but if you need gaming then you’ll need to go somewhere else. Gaming on GNOME Wayland was fine for me when I still had used an NVIDIA card, I imagine Plasma Wayland isn’t too different.
Yep, my first Linux distro after finally abandoning Windows. There’s so much to explore! I wanna try some new desktop environments like Gnome, maybe try out Mint or something else Debian-based some time, and either once I get an AMD GPU or it gets more stable with Nvidia, try out Hyprland :3
The customizability of all this is awesome and I love it so much so far! The only problem is, as you’d expect, certain games don’t work well :c
ah crap, sorry to hear that. i bet it’s games with EAC.
i don’t recall the last time i had issues with a game, but then again i don’t play the kinds of games that might require EAC and also don’t have an nvidia gpu.
I think it’s mostly a problem with rolling updates. Things like Deep Rock Galactic worked perfectly fine for a while and then suddenly the initial screen was entirely black for whatever reason, every time I tried to start it. The game is still playable though, so it’s mostly a minor inconvenience. Also, with Team Fortress 2 I have to first switch on Proton, then swap back to native, because it doesn’t start at all with proton and if I try to just start it without swapping back and forth, it turns off both my side monitors and changes the middle one’s aspect ratio to 5:2 for whatever inexplicable reason. That happened after an update as well. Only one game is entirely broken so far, the rest is just minor inconveniences and I’m waiting for new updates to maybe fix them again.
So yeah, it’s mostly fine :3
Hyprland has NVIDIA patches specific to them by the way, they have a guide for how to set it up for Arch users on their wiki. There’s surprising number of people using Hyprland with NVIDIA because of it.
Alright, now I’m intrigued
What about game support though? I’ve heard Proton/Wine stuff in general is a bit less functional on Wayland/Hyprland and with how on the edge it is for some games, I’m not in the mood to give more functionality up for better aesthetics
No, XWayland on Hyprland (and wlroots in general) has major issues with NVIDIA. My understanding is that it should be fine for Wayland apps, but if you need gaming then you’ll need to go somewhere else. Gaming on GNOME Wayland was fine for me when I still had used an NVIDIA card, I imagine Plasma Wayland isn’t too different.