X11 vs Wayland - Lemmy

I’m a seasoned Linux user, but mostly for servers and services, not really for desktop use. I’ve dabbled in some desktop distros on my personal rig a few times in the past, but ultimately due to specific games, I’ve gone back to Windows. I recently installed Arch and KDE. Upon initial boot I noticed it was defaulted to Wayland. Every time I would try to log in it would just go to a black screen then cycle back to the login screen. Picking X11 would bring me to the desktop. Basic Specs: - AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3D - nVidia RTX 4090 I have been doing some reading into this and it looks like the issue is due to the proprietary nVidia drivers, but there are solutions to work around this. I know nothing of Wayland other than its supposed to be more secure. My question is, is it worth the time/effort to get Wayland working? I primarily use my system for gaming. X11 seems to be working just fine for me right now. Forgive me if I’m using some of the terminology wrong, still learning.

I had many issues running Arch+Wayland+nvidia because, as a long-time i3 user, I figured that migrating to Sway would be the best choice based on so many people in the community talking about it. I tried moving over several times, every few months to see if the experience had improved but each time I got frustrated with how terrible and buggy the environment was.

Trying out Hyprland was a complete game-changer. I've been running it full-time for about 2 months and it's completely stable, supports everything I need to run, and is more efficient: the battery on my laptop lasts about 30% longer compared to my i3/picom/X11 setup.

So yeah, I highly recommend Hyprland if you've tried sway in the past and didn't get anywhere with it.