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Just went through a sway install and its on the right path but still needs alot of work.

Alot of digging is needed to get nvidia accelerating / mouse cursor to work and performance is not comparable to X11 atm from my experience.

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This is on nvidia or as I say "nie wieder" for "never again"

I haven't bought an nvidia powered device since 2007 and am using amd exclusively since 2011. No regrets. Open source drivers rock!

I used sway for a bit back in 2019 on a dated laptop with Nvidia card, I was actually impressed how performant it was compared to Gnome. I remember tiling browser windows + complex apps, some terminals and DotA2 while waiting for matchmaking so IMO I was throwing a lot at it, but things kept working and running smoothly, it would react instantly to any tiling hotkeys, fullscreen toggle, no matter how much I was messing with it. On Windows programs would become unresponsive after 1/10 of such treatment.

There was one dealbreaker though; random rare crashes which would reset my workspace that I couldn't narrow down to anything. This + not being in the mood to write my own DE from scratch (configs) made me ditch it. But it is tempting to go back to it once in a while given how much time had passed - if it was available for Mac, I would very very likely reconsider, otherwise it just adds more fragmentation between Mac/Linux.

And btw DotA2 had more FPS than on Windows :)

Sway supports anything the kernel supports. The kernel supports any video card that implements their APIs. Nvidia doesn’t do the latter, so blame them.

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