What the heck is going on with NVIDIA and Linux these days ...?

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Hi to everyone. What is going on with NVIDIA's drivers and Wayland these days? I'm more than capable of doing a Google search myself and trying to answer this question myself, but what's the actual situation right now? I'm on X11 after having installed my new 3050 RTX card, and everything works great. But on Wayland, it's the opposite. What's going on these days? I saw something about "explicit sync" and official open source drivers from NVIDIA (version 560) that are supposed to fix Wayland issues with NVIDIA cards. What's going on with these and Zorin? The latest drivers offered by Zorin are version 550. But where's 560? Can someone "in the know" please clarify all this? It's been so long since I've used NVIDIA on Linux ...

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Follow-up:

I did some more searching (specifically on Reddit this time around), and found information that led me to find out that the 560 drivers are still in beta right now. They're out, but they're not ready for mainstream use yet.

Does anyone have any idea about the following: 1) When the 560 drivers will actually be "officially" out, and 2) When will Zorin make available these drivers when they're certified by NVIDIA? Day One? Or later as part of a point release?

Thanks.

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Okay, Nvidia and Wayland. Yes, there is Explicit Sync. And that is the Key Feature.

But: This is needed in the Driver (Nvidia Driver 555 and upwards) AND in the Desktop Environment (Gnome 46.1 and upwards, Plasma 6.1 and upwards).

Without both components this Feature isn't work full. You can have some general Improvements but not in the full Way. On Zorin 17 we have only Gnome 43 and so You can't have that here.

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Thanks for replying. So ... just to be clear, please - the 555 driver already has what is needed right now, but the GNOME environment also needs to be a specific version number, too? Is that correct?

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Yes. But think about that the 555 Driver is the first Version with it.

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Thank you. I know English isn't your first language, so I wanted to make sure I understood you clearly. Danke.

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560 is a terrible driver when your using suspend alot, even booting up the system might result in a blinking cursor. 560 is also not a beta driver but a New Feature Branch driver. Means new features got added so developers get early access to them before they make it to the stable release (Recommended) 550.xx. 555.xx runs great too on my MSI notebook, using that driver for 2 months by now (i am running x11).

As for now i recommand the 565 beta driver for people who are running into issues with booting and/or suspend issues (black screen of death).

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Totally okay. No Problem.

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I'm glad I stick with nouveau drivers! (and I am not a gamer, perhaps that is the difference ... except I game on PS4 Pro!)

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The difference between nouveau and NVIDIA for gaming is astonishing ..... a while back for some strange reason my laptop switched back to the generic driver and I spent hours trying to figure what went wrong with my game the sharpness and color was totally flat compared to NVIDIA drivers ......

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I keep gaming excessively with NVidia 550... So I guess everything is OK with NVidia and Linux, if that's what you're asking.
Wayland, on the other hand... thanks but no thanks. Hard pass. Even if I switch to AMD.

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