I switched to GNOME and wayland last week. The time for dwm on X11 is gone. Things got so much better now. Unless you still own something from nvidia as I did. The GTX 1650 and GT 1030 — both are more than powerful enough for my needs. I barely play games anymore these days. Other than Rocket League and some old school real-time strategy games, my graphics card usually has quite a comfy night. However, with nvidia there are some issues, especially on wayland. For instance, I wasn't able to wake up from sleep. I always ended up with nothing but a black screen. Long story short, I decided to hit the button and get my hands on an RX 560 (used).

From a regular user's perspective, it is the much better choice to go AMD here. It just works out of the box, well sort of. As of now, there are only 2 issues I've had to deal with:

  • set ozone-platform-hint=auto in chrome://flags
  • set the performance level to prevent DPM issues

And that's about it. While the '560 isn't very powerful with its 2GB of GDDR5, it does the job for me. Suspend and waking up works. No more flickering or screen tearing, colors are decent. amdgpu_top shows it is only using 8 watt most of the time. It feels good to finally join #teamred, especially on such a low budget of € 20,-.