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Plasma / Wayland and Plasma / X11 both play nicely.
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You’ll probably need to test that for yourself.
- I have one NVidia system that works great with KDE Plasma + Wayland.
- I have another NVidia system that is a continuous battle with KDE Plasma + Wayland.
Same Nvidia drivers. Same desktop environment. Different Nvidia GPU’s.
X11 is generally more consistent, but X11 development has been prematurely abandoned, so you might find one day it fails to log-in to an X11 session because an update broke it (as has happened to me).
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I don’t think there’s going to be one specific answer to that question. It depends on my things—specifically, your particular combination of hardware, GPU, and drivers.
In my case, KDE Plasma running in a Wayland session has been rock-solid. But that’s me and my specific setup (which is as follows)…
PC: MSI Z370 Gaming
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-8700K Processor @ 4.80 GHz
MEMORY: 32 GB DDR4
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8 GB GDDR6X Memory)
GPU DRIVER: nvidia [open source] 580.82.09
If you have a similar setup, then I’m confident that KDE Plasma is the DE you’re looking for. But as I said above, there really is no one specific answer as to which EOS (Arch) DE is “nicest” to Nvidia graphics.
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I have used both Plasma and Gnome with Wayland and have had not issues considering Nvidia with either of them. I think this is mostly about each own’s preferences. 
I have run both Budgie and KDE with Nvidia and have had no real issues with the below hardware setup.
Mobo: X870E AORUS MASTER
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU: GeForce RTX 5080
GPU Driver: nvidia (open source) 580.82.09
If you’re thinking about gaming, GNOME wayland is catching up to KDE wayland – you could say it’s pretty much there already. So really, just go with whichever you like more.
