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    [–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 year ago (33 children)

    Let's do it right here!
    Sway is a Wayland i3 implementation and you really should be using Wayland instead of X.

    [–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    I would love to but 1. I love my simple awesomeWM setup 2. Nvidia shenanigans.
    :(

    [–] CheesyFox@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Nvidia shenanigans

    i know that feel bro :(

    [–] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I might be swayed to try it out

    [–] dabu@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
    [–] ExLisper@linux.community 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    No, you only should be using Wayland if you need some of it's features. If you don't need mixed refresh rate/mixed scaling you're fine using X.

    [–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    X is abandonware and full of security issues probably time to switch to maintained aoftware

    [–] odium@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

    This sentence works really well for twitter too

    [–] ExLisper@linux.community -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    X' architecture is insecure. There's no isolation between windows, and each process can spy on your input. That's just one example.
    Wayland is necessary.

    [–] ExLisper@linux.community 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Yet no known active exploits use this insecure architecture to cause actual harm. It's just another FUD.

    I'd hardly call that an exploit. There's no protection.

    [–] Ooops@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    The Sway implementation (not Wayland as some DEs seem to run really smoothly) sadly is still completely hit or miss depending on your exact hardware setup. I have two device (both even with nvidia grphics *sigh*) and one of them is just a buggy and flickering mess.

    I disagree. Sway is extremely high quality software. Nvidia is a known terrible player with FLOSS software. I hope they will continue their path of recent improvements.

    [–] Gabagoolzoo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Sway devs don't support NVIDIA graphics

    [–] Ooops@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

    I know they officially don't. And I didn't try to say that Sway was bad in any way or that it is their fault. I was just stating facts about state of it with NVIDIA graphics (that kept me -as a long-term i3 user- from switching to Wayland).

    [–] ctr1@fl0w.cc 1 points 1 year ago

    For a while I would have agreed, and I used sway for years. But recently I switched back to i3 (i3-rounded) due to display issues with my AMD GPU. I started doing most of my development in the TTY, and found that switching from TTY to Wayland takes half a second and can sometimes break my GPU (until I switch between TTY and display a few times). With X11 it's instant and without issue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Hoping that gets fixed down the road, or that it's specific to my GPU.

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