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If Sway had the support it deserves and a larger developer base to actually work decently with Nvidia cards, there would be no competition really. Under Wayland, it’s definitely the best WM experience anyone can wish for.

I understand the whole issue with nvidia and their asinine drivers, so no need to come down on me. Hopefully things change in the future with Nvidia cards, I absolutely love the experience Sway provides on integrated intel gpus.

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Yeah. I'm using Sway as a daily driver and it's pretty amazing. It's a shame that nvidia is what it is, though. Every ~month you'll get a crash which really shouldn't happen. Not really sure that nvidia will ever come around to working nicely on Linux, though. The best we seem to have from them on any open source front is nvidia-docker :/

I just got a cheap Radeon for sway and use my 2080ti with qemu and gpu passthrough, playing games on virtualized windows. Good enough for me.

Yeah this is what I do as well. Really honestly surprised how good it works sometimes.

Mind sharing a bit more about which Radeon you got? And how you achieve proper gpu pass through? Do you run Windows on Qemu?

RX 580 for Sway. A RX 6800 XT would be great, but they still cost a lot. The new ones work really well with linux, is what I hear. But you should follow the latest kernel versions, due to lots of bugs being fixed at the moment by AMD.

For passthrough, just have another graphics card and follow the Arch wiki for installation. It works quite well:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

Thanks! I'll check out the RX 580. They're a bit more pricy now than usual even on the second hand market, I guess due to chip shortage and miners.

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