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[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 107 points 10 months ago (34 children)

I firmly believe this will be the year of the Wayland Desktop. Everything is shaping up to finishing off the transition for regular people and further stabilisation of the Wayland desktop space.

[–] misophist@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

This won't be the year of the Wayland desktop for me unless I can afford to replace my Nvidia card this year. I'll never buy one again, but I've still gotta suffer with the one I have a bit longer.

[–] Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space 10 points 10 months ago

NVK is looking to be a viable replacement for general desktop computing in a few months, so long as you don't need NVENC and any of the other stuff.

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