Waydroid not launching with an NVIDIA GPU
Greetings, I have Bazzite on my laptop that has an NVIDIA GPU and for some reason, Waydroid doesn't seem to launch. What can I do to fix this?
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waydroid won't work on a nvidia gpu, no support for it
if you want any gpu acceleration at all you'd need AMD/Intel iGPU
WHY IS LINUX LIKE THIS WITH NVIDIA? IT IS OUTRAGEOUS.
It's Nvidia's fault, they make a closed source driver that nobody but them can fix
And they did anti-consumer actions to ensure the community made open source driver wouldn't work for anything except 2D clockspeeds for the last decade
I'm speechless.
What about Anbox? Does that work?
no
Am I screwed?
Should I switch back to Shitdows for gaming?
there is no android solution for linux that works on nvidia at this time. There is an open source driver called NVK that should be functional within the next year
Steam and other games will work fine
What if the GPU is under a heavy load? Will I still get the best performance out of it?
yes
Ok.
By the way, I forgot to enroll in an MOK or something like that on the first boot. I don't have secure boot enabled. Even though I did have Windows 11 on it with secure boot turned off and I had no errors with it being turned off which sounds a bit strange.
You can re-enroll it from ujust
you'll need the key enrolled for secure boot
I don't have it enabled.
then you don't need the key
but you will if you decide you want to turn it on
Cool. I'm a bit worried whether I can't control the fans of the laptop since there isn't any official way from its manufacturer to control them on Linux.