On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 07:22, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 09/11/2021 19:11, George N. White III wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 at 19:48, Go Canes <letsgonhlcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I thought I had seen information on how to uninstall wayland from > > Fedora 34 - not just switch between xorg and wayland, but actually > > remove the packages. But my google searches are coming up empty. > > > > Is there a way to remove the wayland packages? I don't expect to be > > attempting to live in a wayland world until Fedora 35 (if then). I > > know I could leave the packages in-place and ignore them, but my > > preference is to remove them. > > > > > > Is there something broken in Wayland on Fedora 34? > > Users of Fedora, and open source software in general, should pay > > back to the community by helping to ensure that major new > > initiatives don't have unanticipated collateral damage. This > > means trying to use major changes like Wayland so see what > > breaks. If you are hoping to that waiting will give time for others > > to discover and solve issue with Wayland you could find that > > your use case has issues in Fedora 35 and fixes might be > > delayed to 36 or beyond. > > > > There probably are some very good advancements with Wayland and KDE. > > Unfortunately I won't be seeing them any time soon. I can't use the > nouveau driver with my > nVidia card since it suffers from hangs. So, I use the nVidia drivers > supplied by rpmfusion. > There was a nouveau bug that caused hangs on my GT218 for kernels after 5.8.18, but the bug has been fixed in current kernels. > > nVidia had made many changes to their drivers to better support Wayland. > But, my > video card has is not supported in the latest nVidia drivers. :-( And, > I'm not sure I want > to spend the $ on a supported card. > Mine is also unsupported by nVidia. Large enterprises will start dumping Intel gen 7 systems that can't run Windows 11 without hacks, but supply chain issues mean the process will be slower than usual. Linux generally lives happily on 2--3 years old boxes (time to get robust drivers, not enough time for newer drivers to mess up) and they have good coverage of any issues in linux forums. -- George N. White III
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