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by pentagrama·1y ago·view on hn ↗
Wanted to try this, but I have Nvidia and Ubuntu, and the page says:

> NVIDIA GPUs are often not usable out-of-the-box, follow the Nvidia page after installing Hyprland if you plan to use one. Blame NVIDIA for this.

> Debian and Ubuntu’s Hyprland is extremely outdated. I do not recommend using the packaged versions at all. Build the entire stack manually instead.

Any good alternative that works on my setup?

2 comments
Hyprland works with nvidia just fine with minimal coniguration, just as well as any other wayland compositor I've tried, and I have a very old card. Having out of date packages is going to be an issue on Ubuntu for software in general, but probably sway would be better to try.
sway works fine with nvidia, even though it's not supposed to