Big news for Linux users - NVIDIA has officially open-sourced their 560 series drivers. This is huge for Wayland support and should make life much easier for anyone running an NVIDIA GPU on Linux.
Full announcement on their developer blog.
NVIDIA 560 drivers now fully open source
3 weeks ago
8 Replies
3 weeks ago
This is massive. Wayland + NVIDIA has been my biggest pain point for years. Finally we might get proper variable refresh rate support without Xorg hacks.
3 weeks ago
Tested the open source drivers on my RTX 4070. Performance is within 2-3% of the proprietary blob. Absolutely wild.
3 weeks ago
Does this mean we can finally ditch nouveau? That driver has been holding Linux gaming back on NVIDIA for years.
3 weeks ago
The Vulkan support is solid. Ran some Proton games and saw zero regressions. This is genuinely the year of the Linux desktop for NVIDIA users lol.
2 weeks ago
As someone who maintained the nouveau driver for years, I am cautiously optimistic. NVIDIA actually contributing upstream is unprecedented.
1 week ago
Suspend/resume finally works properly on my 4090. That alone makes this worth it. No more black screens after sleep.
1 week ago
Anyone tested this on Fedora 43? I want to make sure it plays nice with the default Mesa stack before I switch.
1 week ago
Running it on Fedora 43 right now. Zero issues. Just install the akmod-nvidia package from RPM Fusion and you are good to go.