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I can only speak from personal experience, but NVIDIA with Wayland has been an absolute mess. My system seems to be stable right now, but there are still weird graphical glitches and artifacts when running games through WINE. Every third or fourth driver update seems to break something.
Also, I’d generally be skeptical of claims that the drivers work well due to “benchmarks.” A benchmark isn’t going to tell you that, for example, certain window elements fail to render entirely until you drag the mouse over them, at which point they suddenly flicker in.
As with anything, YMMV. I'm curious why you're running games through Wine though. Proton seems to be the better option for gaming.
I'm pretty sure the "correct" way to say it is "WINE with Proton." You can't run Proton alone. It's an addition to WINE. Some people will just leave off either, and we all generally know what they mean, but if you're being pedantic you need to say both, not just Proton.
I’m using Proton/WINE/GNU/Linux.
I use Proton for Steam and Bottles for everything else. I was using WINE as a catchall term, since all of these technologies are fundamentally built on top of it.
Odds are you're using Proton in Bottles too, or Heroic/Lutris. You're using WINE for both though, including when using Proton.
Gotcha. I figured that was the case, but I didn't want to assume, since they're not technically synonymous.
i had a terrible experience too but this is with laptop mind you.
since people are often saying nvidia is just fine I'm starting to believe my problem is the mux switching and not even the gpu itself... but since I'm not an expert i can't be sure...