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Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights

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Re: Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights

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Post by bpye »

half-kh-hacker wrote: post #34
sz4kerto wrote: post #28

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Nouveau is useless for a card like the 1080Ti, you get 10% of the performance and much worse energy efficiency. Yes, I also dislike nvidia but a few years ago AMD was absolutely awful under Linux. Yeah, not much wrong with i3 but I really like what you're doing with Sway. :)

I use nouveau on my 960, and the performance is pretty much the same. 10% seems like a big overstatement.

It very much depends upon the generation, the 1000 series cards aren't well supported but they do work.

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Post by m45t3r »

sz4kerto wrote: post #27
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #22

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Your experience is not lackluster with non-nvidia cards. These days AMD cards are competetive in both price and performance.

I bought my 1080Ti two years ago and have custom watercooling on it. I can spend a lot of money now and get an AMD card that's a bit slower and consumes much more power. Sure, I should be voting with my wallet but it's not a cheap vote.

What is your use case for external GPU? If you need a good GPU for gaming on Linux, it is better to sell your 1080ti and get a AMD RX580 or even AMD Vega. If it is for CUDA, you can use your CPU's IGP or buy a cheap AMD GPU for desktop and only use NVIDIA for CUDA.

So unless you don't have a IGP and your motherboard doesn't have spare PCI-e slots, it is better to use a dual GPU approach of if you really need a NVIDIA card. Otherwise selling your NVIDIA card and buying a AMD one is a good choice.

Of course, YMMV and you know better than me what is good for you.

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Post by majewsky »

sz4kerto wrote: post #28
Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #14

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You can use the nouveau driver, which is supported and works well. Or you could sell your card and get an AMD one. If not, there's nothing wrong with sticking to i3+X11 until a more convenient time.

Nouveau is useless for a card like the 1080Ti, you get 10% of the performance and much worse energy efficiency. Yes, I also dislike nvidia but a few years ago AMD was absolutely awful under Linux. Yeah, not much wrong with i3 but I really like what you're doing with Sway. :)

> Yes, I also dislike nvidia but a few years ago AMD was absolutely awful under Linux.

I can assure you that these days are gone. I just got a new Thinkpad with a Ryzen APU and nearly [1] everything worked out of the box. The R9 Nano in my desktop also works perfectly with the AMDGPU driver.

[1] "Nearly" because I needed to add "iommu=soft" to the kernel parameters to get Linux to boot.

Re: Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights

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Post by jeremejevs »

mmmdaaa wrote: post #31

I setup sway couple days ago from source (with wlroots instead of wlc) and agree with the statement that sway now has the best hidpi support on Linux. I have UHD 15.6 inch laptop monitor and use FullHD 21.5 inch external monitor. Setting the scaling properly was super easy, and the performance is much better compared to my previous Xorg setup. The only thing missing for me currently is tray icons support.

Check out Waybar [0], it got tray support merged today, with a fix for Electron apps coming soon [1].

[0] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar

[1] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/issues/57

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