Re: Wayland a no go on Kubuntu 21.04 and an older graphics card.
As AC points out, they maintain older cards on an older driver branch. Fedora users will find these in RPM Fusion. 390 series goes back to GeForce 400 (released 2010) and was updated July this year, current 470 series goes back to GeForce 600 (released 2012). While I'd certainly prefer an open source driver where they could theoretically be maintained forever (I like that my ICE 1724 soundcard is still supported), that's a pretty good lifetime. (In practice they wouldn't, kernel folks dropped 386 and are currently talking about 486.)
My current problem is actually a Fedora system with i915 (open source) doing weird things (Wayland and X...) with characters occasionally, while the same Fedora release on a machine with gtx 1060 is fine.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
