I have been using openSUSE Leap 15.6 as it works with the amdgpu-pro driver. And that driver is needed as you will run in the problems using the mesa open source drivers.

Leap's KDE Plasma desktop comes with both wayland and X11. The X11 i needed for the driver. Wayland does not render.

I have some issues with Vulkan reverting back to OpenGL in Houdini at the moment. But i will report back if i get that fixed.

vulkan has indeed also been problematic. It's been making houdini more unstable. I also reverted back to openGL.

I was honestly thinking that Maya will actually be last to got Wayland update. Seems like it wasn't up to Maya at all.
Since recent linux updates kernel and nvidia driver updates Maya is working just fine now on Wayland.
But Houdini got even more unstable then it was. So just wondering if it is up to SideFX or something to do with NVidia??

Mirko Jankovic
Not sure if it is due to latest drivers but I've just run Houdini under Wayland on Nobara 39, nvidia 4090 and latest 555 nvidia drivers and seems to work just fine. Nothing special just fired it up

Hello there,
just checking how is it going for you with Houdini in Wayland on 555 NVidia drivers after 10 months? Are you still on 555 drivers? Or did you switch to X11 with more up-to-date drivers for Linux?

Curious to know how did it go for you over longer span of time. Thx

No luck at all, crashing nonstop, I had to put X11, after all, to be able to do anything, unfortunately, seems like we can only hope for some Wayland support no H21.

Mirko Jankovic
No luck at all, crashing nonstop, I had to put X11

Hmmm, I see.

Mirko Jankovic
seems like we can only hope for some Wayland support no H21.

Well Nvidia and Redhat are on the boat regarding Wayland development. Which I hope is a good thing

Well yea, Fedora kicked X11 since 41, now 42 is almost out, and Fedora is RH testing ground.. there is still Rocky and Alma that will stick to X11 for a while I guess but everybody else is removing X11.