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sway is a drop-in replacement for i3 if you want to try again!

(and I think the nvidia issue is solved or close to being solved)

wayland has been the only way I've managed to get tear free smooth 60fps on Linux (trying intel, nvidia and amd drivers on Xorg)

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Agreed, I switched to Wayland and Sway when I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04. It has basically been a drop in replacement and has been working great!

I've moved to using a mac as my primary device, so no more Sway or i3, unfortunately :'(

Though, fwiw, I had no issues with screen tearing once I started using picom. I used to have mild tearing before that, but after setting up picom (don't remember how I configured it exactly) I got buttery smooth output!

The relevant picom option would be:

    vsync = true

Love picom

I'm using i3, specifically i3-gaps and I'm rather interested in switching.

I don't have nvidia.

Where can I learn more?

https://swaywm.org/

The Arch wiki page for Sway is a pretty good starting point: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sway#Configuration.

FWIW I was also an i3 user for a long time (and xmonad before that), and I’m a very happy convert to Sway.

There is a Manjaro Sway community flavor if you want to USB boot something preconfigured and check it out.

is the problem of blurry on XWayland for hidpi solved yet? That one prevented me from migration the last time (still keep sway installed but only login to i3).

Well, that is an X11 issue though. But I don’t know the current state of that

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