X11 environments freeze when I try to boot them unless I disable my second monitor for some reason. And it has terrible vsync flickering issues all the time, even when just scrolling through web pages and such. Also it doesn’t have multi-monitor DPI, which I need.

But other than that, yeah, it’s genuinely a lot more stable!

I also have a NVIDIA card, and I use Linux with Wayland. It’s usable for sure! But people are honestly downplaying the issues a lot.

I’ve had a lot of bugs and issues that are pretty annoying, such as apps flickering, performance sometimes (rarely) falling off a cliff for seemingly no reason, the card underclocking itself sometimes when waking from sleep (which kills performance until you reboot), and worst of all, random kernel panics that force me to hit the reset button, losing any unsaved work and risking a filesystem corruption (because there’s no safe way to shutdown since everything is completely and utterly locked up).

I’ve reported these bugs, and most of them have actually been fixed in the latest driver versions! But the kernel panics still happen once in a while, and that’s not great.

So be warned! But don’t be scared off. All of these issues are infrequent. Most of the time, it works without issue, and games actually run really great!

You don’t have to know it, but it’s a good thing to know!

It’s actually easier than the other way once you learn how to use it (looking through search results to make sure it’s the official link, clicking through installers, having to think about updates, etc. vs. just opening a terminal and typing winget install whatever).

But the terminal intimidates people. So I expect this will mainly be used as an optional “tech tip” sort of thing.