News [Phoronix] GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams

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EGLStreams was NVIDIA's original route to supporting Wayland with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Adoption was limited and driver vendors outside of NVIDIA didn't end up going with EGLStreams/EGLDevice. Thankfully, NVIDIA corrected course long ago with DMA-BUF, GBM, and KMS support that aligns with the rest of the ecosystem, and now that old code path is being removed from GNOME Mutter...

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Drops-EGLStreams

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