Maybe if more projects add things like this it will keep them from having to get rid of bug bounties.

My 16G RTX-3080 Mobile works well with Niri

I’ve found it varies from compositor to compositor:

• Plasma? Mid on Nvidia
  • Constantly I have issues and I can’t even solve them myself
  • I have plasma working on Ubuntu Studio on a laptop I use for music making which has some Nvidia card, and that works fine, but not on my main Arch install
• GNOME? Works okay until you want to do something with portals like screen recording
  • Even if I use a different portal, GNOME overrides it.
• Hyprland? Works amazing EXCEPT for random tiny issues
  • Also I had to do a lot of tweaking
  • Every now and then some program will not start or something
  • But generally pretty good
• Sway? Garbo support
  • Nvidia may not even boot. Lots of tweaking. Lots of issues
• Cosmic? For wayland - solid
  • For everything else… it needs a little work still
  • I also tried Cosmic Shell + Niri, and it just kinda didn’t work in some ways like theming, but Wayland worked great.
  • Also performance with multi-displays is kinda poor, or at least it was when I tried it.
• But Niri? Perfect
  • Absolutely FLAWLESS Wayland. EVERYTHING works
  • And now that I have DMS there’s so much done for me. It’s really a great system

Since I love the scrolling aspect of Niri as well, it works out well that it has the best Wayland support. 10/10 project. I love it

When I was on X11 still I was primarily an i3 user, and the transition to Hyprland and Niri has been generally positive

But yeah, I’ve worked with Nvidia on Linux for several years now on multiple machines. I’m finally throwing in the towel whenever I buy a new PC. AMD all the way. It’s just better on Linux, even on X11

All I need is VLC and MPV

I’d recommend using something like Niri instead of mutter for the compositor as Niri is:

• Extremely customizable
• Meant to be used alone (unlike mutter which is for Gnome)
• Supportive of Wayland portals better than any compositor I’ve tried
• Very modern
• Pretty stable
• Making use of scrolling window management which is, imo, superior to anything else
  • You could force all windows to be floating if you want that traditional method tho

I’d also recommend using DankMaterialShell and simply providing a theming to get the appeal you want. It works well with Niri and provides all the system tools you need for an OS like bluetooth and audio management, application lookup, etc. It’s sort of a stripped down Gnome-shell for standalone compositors but way more customizable.

Then everything else can just be installed WINE apps.