I'm not looking for a huge detailed answer but I've just started to switch over to Linux and I'm trying to understand if I need to start thinking about this. Unfortunately, I use an Nvidia card right now which is apparently an issue with Wayland at the moment to my minimal understanding. Is Wayland compatible with games? Would switching from xorg to Wayland be relatively easy? Sorry if these are very basic or dumb questions, I'm very new to all this, thanks! :meow-floppy:
Most commercial games use X. Wayland has a compatibility layer for X called XWayland which makes most X applications work transparently. Nvidia hasn't budged on actually supporting XWayland for years though, so video acceleration through XWayland is completely broken for Nvidia users. Only within the past few months has Nvidia began doing the work to support it.
It looks like acelleration is possible in XWayland already, But this is very bleeding edge shit and probably fragile (that article is only 2 days old!). Most distributions are not shipping these driver/software versions yet.
For gaming on Linux with Nvidia, using Xorg is still the path of least resistance - by far.
Is wayland compatible with games
Short answer is yes.
Would switching from Xorg to wayland be easy?
Not with an Nvidia GPU. Neither their open nor closed drivers have proper support for wayland. There are hacks to get it to sort of work but I can't recommend those to a new user.
