Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
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Re: Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
#2I know this is about sway, but I feel I can't pass up this opportunity to profess my undying love for i3. The learning curve is relatively minor for such a slim powerful system I'm truly amazed. I really can't thank the original author(s) enough.
RE: Sway, I'm glad they hit this milestone, I have a friend who is using it and he claims it's almost as good, (although he hasn't found a way to do -gaps yet..).
Last time I used Wayland/Sway I couldn't get decent font rendering. Has the situation improved?
Re: Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
#3"Experimental Nvidia support has been deprecated since its inception, and has now been removed entirely. Please use nouveau and consider future purchases from GPU vendors that support open source. Other proprietary drivers are also unsupported."
How is nouveau doing this days compared to the proprietary drivers of NVidia ?
Re: Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
#4Another interesting project which is similar to awesome: http://way-cooler.org/
Re: Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
#5Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18265793
Re: Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
#6"Experimental Nvidia support has been deprecated since its inception, and has now been removed entirely. Please use nouveau and consider future purchases from GPU vendors that support open source. Other proprietary drivers are also unsupported." How is nouveau doing this days compared to the proprietary drivers of NVidia ?
Yes, IT puts me in a wierd situation as I need nvidia for machine learning related stuff, and I would love to move from i3 to sway...
Re: Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
#7Sway is great -- for my purposes (which are mostly arranging terminal emulators) it's been indistinguishable from i3 for well over a year. Unfortunately some of the systems I use are burdened with Nvidia cards, which don't seem to work well with Wayland no matter which driver I use. (It's even worse with Gnome!) Anywhere I have AMD or Intel graphics, I use Sway very happily.
Re: Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
#8I know this is about sway, but I feel I can't pass up this opportunity to profess my undying love for i3. The learning curve is relatively minor for such a slim powerful system I'm truly amazed. I really can't thank the original author(s) enough. RE: Sway, I'm glad they hit this milestone, I have a friend who is using it and he claims it's almost as good, (although he hasn't found a way to do -gaps yet..). Last time…
i3 really is just incredible and simple - and not at all opinionated about what other components you use (statusbar, menu, notification system, screen locker, etc).
Re: Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
#9"Experimental Nvidia support has been deprecated since its inception, and has now been removed entirely. Please use nouveau and consider future purchases from GPU vendors that support open source. Other proprietary drivers are also unsupported." How is nouveau doing this days compared to the proprietary drivers of NVidia ?
Doesn't support GPU power management on the newer cards akin to 1080 Ti. Thus X will never start if you've got more than a single 4K monitor; I suppose neither would GPGPU work. But I don't think I've had any other issues.
BTW, I believe the reason it's not supported isn't because OS developers don't understand how it works - it's because Nvidia has never released the private keys associated with power management on the GPU. So the only thing Nvidia's got to do is to provide these keys to the open-source community. So it is a DRM issue.
Re: Sway: i3-compatible Wayland compositor – 1.0-beta.1 released
#10"Experimental Nvidia support has been deprecated since its inception, and has now been removed entirely. Please use nouveau and consider future purchases from GPU vendors that support open source. Other proprietary drivers are also unsupported." How is nouveau doing this days compared to the proprietary drivers of NVidia ?
It's not great in terms of performance in games, but it's perfectly usable on the desktop. I've been using sway on nouveau full time for a couple of days now and have had no issues so far.