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Wayland: I3 to Sway Migration – Anarcat

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I tried moving to Wayland and hyprland last year, but I couldn't get Zoom to handle screen sharing (specifically window sharing). I wonder if this has improved at all?

Always interested to read how others are choosing their tools, but if you don't want to get as bogged down in these details and are more inclined towards a rolling distro, I can vouch for Manjaro Sway. I've been using it for three ywars now on the original Framework laptop and while it has had some bumps along the way I am happy for the sensible decisions the maintainers have made for me, including most of the items here.

Would be nice to see a Debian or Fedora Silverblue equivalent of this kind of opinionated Sway base.

I used wayland for a long time some years ago and it was basically the same experience, Screensharing was the main blocker back then.

Never noticed a difference in terms of snappiness or tearing.

Nowadays I have a nvidia gpu and wayland + proprietary drivers has tons of issues, so I switched to x11.

I could probably use the integrated gpu (amd) to drive the desktop and use nvidia purely for ai/ml (which would free up some extra vram) but then I can't play videogames on the nvidia card.

What drivers are you using? 555+ have improved a lot.

560!

I get all sorts of weird artifacts on the screen, sometimes I keep seeing a still image of a previous window.

I didn't use sway though, I accidentally logged in into plasma wayland and noted the issues. I doubt it's caused by Kwin though, it would likely show up on their bugtracker.

I still have the i3 to sway switch in front of me. Screen sharing is a daily must in my work, so at least somewhat in the past there were too many warning voices.

Fedora has a sway spin. I wonder whether that "just works" (TM).

Screen sharing has been working fine for years now. Chromium-based browsers and firefox all “just works”, that is every electron-based app as well. Sometimes the latter may use a too old version of electron, but it’s just a website either way, or you can just update its dependency.

That hasn't been my experience. Last time I tried Wayland earlier this year it was a 50:50 chance screen sharing worked. I just gave up on it. X11 works. And I'm still pissed we went from centralized settings that work across WMs to completely different settings in every WM, with no guarantee what you want is even implemented. A bit less screen tearing (which I haven't noticed in X11 in years) and supposed security benefits don't seem worth it.

I hope Wayland doesn't stick around and it's successor is actually thought out and reasoned about real world use cases and cooperation.

Was that a comment particularly to the Fedora sway spin or generally to some carefully crafted setup?

Completely ordinary setup, as is, both arch and nixos.

Fedora net install minimal with Sway pulled in is great, and I can't see why Fedora Sway spin would be any worse.

It just works, with extra config optional.

I mean, every day you don't get around to switching just makes switching easier, as Wayland will (presumably) get better over time, so until X actively isn't meeting your needs anymore (which is unlikely to happen randomly either: it will correlate with something you have some control over the timing of) there isn't much reason to worry about even considering a switch.

This me. Why switch? X works just fine for me.

I don't want to learn Wayland or any of its quirks until I have to.

I've already seen how lacking it is in terms of input control. I'm sure it's better since I looked a few years ago, but really who cares. Until I have to switch, why would I?

> as Wayland will (presumably) get better over time

That's what they say all the time. At the moment it seems it has yet to be close to X while bringing nothing new.

The article was written on 2022-11-16. Would be interesting to know if things have gotten easier.

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