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> I have read this and I don't understand why Wayland developers don't want to write an adapter for NVidia's proprietary API.

If you're NVidia user you're justified to feel bad about this entire fiasco but remember protocols exist so that everyone implements their own part and users can mix-and-match and it works together.

If AMD and Intel can dedicate resources to maintain their Wayland implementations with no complains why NVidia can't?

> why Wayland developers don't want to write an adapter for NVidia's proprietary API

Because they could use the time spent on maintaining NVidia proprietary API adapter writing open-source software that will benefit all parties.

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> If AMD and Intel can dedicate resources to maintain their Wayland implementations with no complains why NVidia can't?

nVidia shares the driver with Windows, AMD/Intel don't. So AMD/Intel always give you a driver that's significantly trailing the Windows versions on features and stability (you can read a lot about this on Dolphin blog for example) while adding more maintenance costs.

> Because they could use the time spent on maintaining NVidia proprietary API adapter writing open-source software that will benefit all parties.

What do you mean "all parties"? They're excluding at least one party - nVidia users.

> They're excluding at least one party - nVidia users.

"They" being Nvidia here. AMDs amdgpu driver clearly shows the problem is neither Linux nor Wayland or Sway.

> What do you mean "all parties"? They're excluding at least one party - nVidia users.

I mean all parties that implement the standard protocol. It's rather nVidia that's not interested in giving their users a chance to use properly Wayland not Sway developers "excluding users" by not doing free work for nVidia.

> significantly trailing

Please elaborate more. I'm writing this from my Dell XPS 9575 with Vega M GL under Fedora 30 and I haven't encountered a single problem in GPU-accelerated applications and games with official open source drivers.

To add to this, the AMD OpenGL windows drivers are notoriously bad, whereas the Linux OpenGL drivers perform closer to DirectX. Performance on that end is significantly ahead.

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