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I guess I have no plans to buy another Nvidia card, then. Their current X11 drivers tear like crazy, and I have hope that Wayland will fix that.

• ekianjo 9y ago
  > Their current X11 drivers tear like crazy, and I have hope that Wayland will fix that. No they don't. I have had 3 different nVIdia configs, and presently 2 for gaming, and through my experience hopping from one distro to the next I find that the problem is actually unrelated to nVIdia drivers - but the compositor. For example, in Mint if you switch to compton, it makes all tearing disappear. This is well documented.
  • shmerl 9y ago
    They do for many users, and taming them is a pain. That's why using Mesa is a breeze in comparison.
  • ollien 9y ago
    They definitely tear, at least for me. I was able to do some hacks to make Plasma not tear, but quite a few games tear like crazy.
    • ekianjo 9y ago
      What compositor do you use? Feel free to reach me, maybe I can help if you can provide me with more details of your config.
      • ollien 9y ago
        I use whatever is included with Fedora's KDE spin. Not quite sure which to be honest.
• lottin 9y ago
  Buy only from companies that support FOSS, e.g. AMD and Intel.
• simias 9y ago
  I tried to do that, unfortunately for the high end AMD is simply not competitive. If you want to game in 4K NVidia is the way to go (or at least it was 6 months ago when I bought my card).