Too little too late.
Already sold my 3070 and went for an 7900 XT bcs i got fed up with NVidia being lazy
well i dearly miss CUDA as i don't get ZLUDA to work properly with Stable Diffusion and FSR is sill leagues behind DLSS... but yeah overall i am very happy
I had to update my laptop about two years ago and decided to go full AMD and it's been awesome. I've been running Wayland as a daily driver the whole time and and I don't even really notice it anymore.
I don't believe Nvidia were the one's being lazy in this regard, they submitted the merge request for explicit sync quite some time ago now. Wayland devs essentially took their sweet time merging the code.
Thats great.
I'd still like my Nvidia card to work so I'm happy about this, and when AMD on Linux eventually starts swapping over to explicit sync, I'll be happy for those users then too.
It will not though. Explicit sync is not a magic solution, it's just another way of syncing GPU work. Unlike implicit sync it needs to be implemented by every part of the graphical stack. Just because Nvidia is implementing it will not solve issues with compositors not having it, and graphical libraries not having it, and apps not supporting it, and so on and so forth. It's a step in the right direction but it won't fix everything overnight like some people think.
Also it's silly that this piece mentions Wayland and Nvidia because (1) Wayland doesn't implement sync of any kind, they probably meant to say "the Wayland stack" and (2) Nvidia is not the only driver that needs to implement explicit sync.
Now all they need is a complete nvidia-settings application under Wayland that allows for coolbits to be set, and I may be able to use Wayland. For some reason, my RTX 2070S boosts far higher than the already overclocked from factory boost clocks, resulting in random crashing - I have to use GWE to limit boost clocks to OEM specs to prevent crashing.
Strangely enough, this was never a problem under Windows.
