NVIDIA Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors

[mrg666]

"but gl wont die any time soon

Sure, but it will be just a symlink to Zink for any hardware that supports vulkan

[mobadboy]

wayland should just reject all of nvidias CRs to hurt their marketshare

[mrg666]

Nvidia is transitioning from complete ignorance to pretending to care. I am just watching unimpressed.

[ssokolow]

It's satisfying to see one of my reasons for sticking to X11 (the ad-hoc, incomplete nature of replacing xdotool and wmctrl) showing up in a Wayland pain points slide from a big company.

[oleid]

It's satisfying to see one of my reasons for sticking to X11 (the ad-hoc, incomplete nature of replacing xdotool and wmctrl) showing up in a Wayland pain points slide from a big company.

Did you try ydotool or wtype? https://github.com/atx/wtype
Potentially also https://git.sr.ht/~brocellous/wlrctl

[NeoMorpheus]

They can't when NVidia does not release documentation. NVidia always is and will be the problem.

Dont forget the white knights that will never, ever point a finger towards Ngreedia.

[brad0]

Sure, but it will be just a symlink to Zink for any hardware that supports vulkan

For some hardware sure, other hardware not.

[brad0]

Nvidia is transitioning from complete ignorance to pretending to care. I am just watching unimpressed.

They don't have any interest in doing the right thing.

[Alexmitter]

Sure, but it will be just a symlink to Zink for any hardware that supports vulkan

I do not see a end to native GL drivers yet. Zink is like llvmpipe a good stop gap but still way too slow to make a proper GL driver unreasonable.

[rmfx]

I agree with them. Opengl should be dropped and its usage should be a compatibility mode made through zink nowadays.
Vulkan is like 10 years old, time to move on !!
For the 1 percent who will complain and say we can’t transition because Vulkan is not supported by THEIR hardware. The problem is not Vulkan, the problem is you.