NVIDIA's Proprietary Linux Driver Adds Support For Wayland, Mir (phoronix.com)

An anonymous reader writes: After being desired by NVIDIA Linux users for years, the proprietary GeForce graphics driver natively supports Wayland and Mir as an alternative to an X.Org Server. It's been a long time coming for the proprietary GPU driver stacks to support Wayland/Mir, but with today's 364.12 beta driver there is now the necessary DRM KMS kernel support and EGL extensions for being able to handle these next-generation display solutions. The new NVIDIA Linux driver also provides integrated Vulkan support, PRIME rendering support, and other additions.

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AMD

[Anonymous Coward]

sux0rz.

Re:Just in time for Ubuntu?

[rahvin112]

Mir is a joke NIH solution to a problem that's already solved with Wayland. And just like all their other NIH solutions to problems they will abandon in a year when it's clear how much it's going to cost them to support it. It's the same story at Canonical over and over again.

Re:More Wayland & Vulkan: GOOD

[jedidiah]

> Network transparency is also a pretty narrow edge case. There hundreds of millions of remote screen devices and deployments today

It makes for a better argument if you don't immediately contradict yourself.

Also, conflating RDP and VNC is just moronic. Microsoft has made RDP a worthy offering. VNC is just a nightmare and the prime example of why you don't want to treat network transparency as an afterthought.

As bad as X is supposed to be, it's still better than VNC. It's WAY better than VNC. X with a few tweaks is almost on par with RDP (even going across the Internet).

Network transparency is by no means a narrow edge case as the example of RDP demonstrates. It's now a common feature that the vast majority of corporate users take for granted.

It's not 1994 anymore. While you X haters were stuck in your bubble the world moved on.