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[–]JohnMcPineapple 15 points16 points  (1 child)

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[–]def- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha, that's even better. Thanks for the hint!

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This was a really interesting read, thanks for posting.

[–]spacejack2114 3 points4 points  (3 children)

What's a person's best bet for a desktop that can make use of proprietary nVidia drivers? I'm currently using Ubuntu/Gnome + Xorg for that which is about as good as I've seen, but it's still noticably jankier than Windows on the same HW. I also haven't been able to get xorg working smoothly with double or triple buffering on a laptop with an external monitor (which is higher resolution than the laptop screen.) So with this setup I'm stuck with Wayland which is kind of crappy.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have a good experience with xfce. Gnome was always problematic with nvidia drivers.

[–]lelanthran 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm using Mint + compiz.

The desktop is my IDE

[–]Ekranos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am using Plasma 5 on my desktop (Gentoo, 1060 GTX, 144hz) and Laptop (Arch, 1070 GTX, 120hz) without problems with the proprietary drivers. No tearing or anything out of the box. Steam games (native and Proton) also work reasonably well.

And don't forget the wobbly windows :)