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GNOME Shell & Mutter Broke Their Good Faith With Ubuntu
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I'm with the Gnome team here.
Sure, "point" releases with Gnome are generally only bug fixes, and Canonical likes that because they just merge those changes without doing much, if any, testing.
But it's also worth mentioning that:
Gnome is extremely pro-wayland. They've suggested it as default for non-nvidia hardware since 2016. Of course they're going to rush explicit sync support out, and they've done a good job getting it ready in a short space of time. What, are they just supposed to wait until September/October, just for the benefit of Canonical? Fuck no.
This was literally never an agreement in the first place.
This is a bugfix, in that it fixes the flickering issues with Nvidia hardware. So even if there was an agreement, I wouldn't consider it broken, really.
There are distros other than Ubuntu, and I imagine they want this fix ASAP.
Gnome is run by Gnome devs. Not by Canonical. If they don't like it, fork it or go back to Unity or something. It's not like Canonical doesn't have the money.
I fear people will interpret this story as "ugh gnome devs being gnome devs!", like they always do. But as usual, there's a reason for Gnome making this choice, and in this case they're unquestionably correct, IMO.
Or Nvidia could just release non-broken drivers. The fault is buggy/incomplete Wayland support in the NVidia driver.