<story><title>“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”</title><url>https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/925605/linux/nvidia-364-12-release-vulkan-glvnd-drm-kms-and-eglstreams/post/5188874/#5188874</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>posguy</author><text>For a company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products, the lack of support from Nvidia continues to be impressive.&lt;p&gt;Intel is actively trying to kill off lowend and mid-range GPUs in the desktop, and has locked them out in the mobile space, leaving Nvidia with just the high end GPU market and their ventures into the ARM SOC space.&lt;p&gt;By not treating Linux end user devices as first class citizens, I don&amp;#x27;t see how Nvidia intends to have a viable business long term. Who wants a tablet, phone or desktop GPU without drivers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cthalupa</author><text>A company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products?&lt;p&gt;Gaming enthusiasts aren&amp;#x27;t running Linux. The HPC&amp;#x2F;GPU compute market don&amp;#x27;t care about Wayland. Android devices aren&amp;#x27;t using Wayland.&lt;p&gt;What part of their target market runs Linux?&lt;p&gt;What portion of the desktop market runs Linux?&lt;p&gt;If it wasn&amp;#x27;t for Linux, I&amp;#x27;d be in a very different profession, so I&amp;#x27;m a huge fan. But I don&amp;#x27;t understand where you guys that act like the Linux desktop is a big enough market that this will make a material affect on nvidia&amp;#x27;s bottom line is so weird to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>“We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”</title><url>https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/925605/linux/nvidia-364-12-release-vulkan-glvnd-drm-kms-and-eglstreams/post/5188874/#5188874</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>posguy</author><text>For a company that is wholly reliant on Linux to sell quite a few of their products, the lack of support from Nvidia continues to be impressive.&lt;p&gt;Intel is actively trying to kill off lowend and mid-range GPUs in the desktop, and has locked them out in the mobile space, leaving Nvidia with just the high end GPU market and their ventures into the ARM SOC space.&lt;p&gt;By not treating Linux end user devices as first class citizens, I don&amp;#x27;t see how Nvidia intends to have a viable business long term. Who wants a tablet, phone or desktop GPU without drivers?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>binarycrusader</author><text>The reality is all the money they make off Linux is with workstations cards or HPC.  Neither of those market niches are likely demanding Wayland support since stability is a hard requirement and Wayland really isn&amp;#x27;t sufficiently mature yet (nor does it really have sufficient market adoption).&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;re a business, so when their customers need it, they&amp;#x27;ll support it.  Until then, only hobbyists or an insufficient part of their customer base is interested, so understandably, they&amp;#x27;re not investing in it.</text></comment>