Sway should have all the benefits that come with being a Wayland compositor, like security and less screen tearing. It's also got a few extra features. Here's a

Sway should have all the benefits that come with being a Wayland compositor, like security and less screen tearing. It's also got a few extra features. Here's a few that I find neat: Window drag-and-drop (a bit janky still, but functional) Including other files in the config file (this is important for my idiosyncratic usage) Input/output configuration. Since Sway doesn't have Xorg running, it's responsible for configuring keyboard/mouse/monitors. This is well documented and very simple to do for simple use cases (and more complex use cases can be supported via IPC). I much prefer this to the clusterfuck you get with X. You also lose a couple features from i3 though: Layout save/restore (this feature won't be ported, but it's possible to achieve the same effect using IPC). Tools like xbindkeys, xdotool don't work. If you find some unusual case where you can't set up a keybinding in the sway config, you're out of luck. This is the cost of Wayland's security advantages.