The NVIDIA-led work to allow XWayland OpenGL and Vulkan acceleration with their proprietary driver has just been merged into X.Org Server Git.
The XWayland changes needed to allow the NVIDIA proprietary driver to work in an accelerated manner have landed in X.Org Server 1.21 Git. The main change is xwayland: implement pixmap_from_buffers for the eglstream backend that was merged just a few minutes ago.
NVIDIA is a big blocker for Wayland, so any steps forward are good steps – even if it takes a while before this code ends up on our desktops.
Wow. Don’t tell me that X11 may actually be on the way out. Installing XQuartz is still one of the first things I do on a new mac and my attempts to use Wayland (even on Intel) in the past haven’t lasted long.
I know that it is ancient and creaky, but I will miss X11 when it does finally fade away. What a run!
People will on Wayland compositors on Linux will be using Xwayland for quite some time.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 X11 on bare metal is not officially supported that is from 2019. X11 has been on the way out for a few years now.
There is a problem for you Apple users no one has funded Wayland compatibility for Apple at this stage. So unless something changes there is going to come a point were Apple users will be stuck with old version of applications because they don’t have Wayland support.
Xwayland fills the same roll as XQuartz. Xwayland is still maintained and the x11 protocol probably will never change so you do not have to worry. The xfree86 hardware-backed server use by unix window managers and desktops is, for all intent and purpose, abandoned.
Nvidia is putting more work into Wayland support because no one, including Nvidia, is willing to put the effort and do a new xorg release. Wayland will be the future for corporate Linux workstations in the next 5 years. xorg is open source so maybe someone will jump in and take over the maintain the xorg hardware-backend.
You should have started with “OSS is a big blocker for itself”.
You seem to have gotten lost. Here you go:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/get-windows-10
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/
I use Wayland without issue on all my machines that aren’t NVIDIA. Not sure what you’re getting at.
“You should have started with “OSS is a big blocker for itself”.”
Agreed.
Remember: We are not just making an open-source OS, every GPU driver has to be “liberated” too.
Though this article is about making the proprietary Nvidia driver work, so the above gripe is irrelevant.
I am glad Wayland is making progress.