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-^ ^AMD^Nvidia^
+| ^AMD^Nvidia^
-|Driver stack|Open source|Proprietary|
+^Account|No need to have an account or register|The need to have an account and be logged in.|
-|Security issues|Anyone can fix.|At the mercy of Nvidia to fix.  There is no one else to wait for other than Nvidia.  They could take ages to fix.|
+^Advertisements|No Ads When Installing Drivers.|Ads showing while it is installing.|
-|Upgrading the distro|No need to remove the old driver.|Need to remove the old driver.|
+^Driver stack|Open source.|Proprietary.|
-|Vendor Lock-in|No Vendor Lock-In.|Substantial Vendor Lock-in.|
+^Performance & Security|X.Org or Wayland can be easily used.|NVIDIA relies on X.Org for displaying graphics on Linux.|
+^:::|AMD adapts to newer technologies such as Wayland to offer better performance, code maintainability, and security.|NVIDIA tries to work around this by using XWayland, which is an X server that runs under Wayland and provides compatibility for native X11 applications that are yet to provide Wayland support.|
+^:::|:::| * XWayland uses X as the display server, so it does not have Wayland’s security features.|
+^:::|:::| * There is “degraded performance” with XWayland on NVIDIA compared to X11.|
+^:::|:::| * Some applications may not work on XWayland due to it not being fully backward-compatible with X11.|
+^Security issues|Anyone can fix.|At the mercy of Nvidia to fix.  There is no one else to wait for other than Nvidia.  They could take ages to fix.|
+^Upgrading the distro|No need to remove the old driver.|Need to remove the old driver.|
+^Vendor Lock-in|No Vendor Lock-In.|Substantial Vendor Lock-in.|