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"Works on my machine, just use my OS" isn't a solution to my problem, whereas X11 is a solution to my problem.


Wasn't suggesting at all that you use my distro or that you can't use X11 as your solution. Debian is great and I use it for all of my servers. I'm just responding to the assertion that Wayland doesn't work with NVIDIA today, which is really only true if you are using older packages for a more stable distro. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not accurate to represent the current state of Wayland based on a distro known for using older packages.


You're literally running Debian. It's Debian. It's old, it's outdated, yes that's your problem!

Listen, I run Debian too. But I'm not going to get online and complain out X Y Z not working when I'm running a package from 3 years ago. Please, be for real.


>It's old, it's outdated, yes that's your problem!

No, it's stable, it's reliable, it's the solution to all of the problems I had on Arch, Fedora, and other rolling releases.

And again, Nvidia drivers work perfectly right out of the box on X11.

Wayland? That's a new problem.


You don't have to preach Debian to the choir man - I run Debian.

We're talking about very new developments here. You're running years old packages. Okay? That's not going to work.

When you're running Debian, it's expected you're going to be 3-5 years behind the Linux userspace status quo. So it's absolutely fine you're on X11. I have a desktop on Bookworm running X11 on Nvidia - works great, I love it. I also have a very, very new laptop running Tumbleweed on Wayland and kernel 6.15. X really struggles with new hardware in a way Wayland does not. For me on that computer, Wayland is better in a plethora of ways. I am a bit forced to run a very new kernel and Mesa and all that due to running bleeding edge hardware.




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