I think you meant to answer OP.
Indeed. Nouveau simply does not have the gaming performance of Nvidia's proprietary driver.
Are you into gaming? If not, then it is perfectly fine to run the nouveau driver.
Many people are not activists like Richard Stallman. Perhaps it's better to run libre software, but it's perfectly reasonable to also run proprietary software.
For example, I switched to Linux when I could run proprietary games on Proton.
I'm using Manjaro. Firefox is the distro's default browser.
A little explanation, there are two different types of drivers:
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Kernel Drivers: The low-level software that directly controls your Video card, managing essential functions like memory and power.
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User-space Drivers: The higher-level software that translates graphics commands from applications and games into instructions your video card can understand.
Here NVIDIA wants to kill the proprietary kernel driver and have the open source kernel included in the kernel by default. This means that the distros or you simply need to download the user-space binary blob driver without having to recompile the kernel driver every time the Nvidia drivers are updated.
For me, VRR is crucial as I play a lot of FPS games or else, I don't feel that the mouse is the extension of my hand. That's why I switched from Gnome to KDE.
In KDE, I agree. I have an AMD video card and I've been gaming in KDE Wayland for quite a while now.
Yup, this is huge. Wayland gaming is now a possibility. With Explicit Sync (needed for NVIDIA users) and VRR, there's now no excuse to keep gaming in X11 in both DEs.
Nonsense. This is huge, as I suspect many people, like myself, switched to KDE because it was the DE that was perfect for gaming in Wayland.
So this is huge for the community! Gaming is now possible in two of the most popular and used DEs.
As for the weather application. Don't blame GNOME, blame the weather provider (OpenWeather).
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Mereo
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Which is why I ask people one simple question: do they plan to game. If they plan to game, I don't recommend them Mint. If they aren't, I recommend them Mint.