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I tried to switch from i3 a few months ago and spent several hours trying to get it to work with my Nvidia card before finding out that the project doesn't supp
by mediocrejoker 8y ago
I tried to switch from i3 a few months ago and spent several hours trying to get it to work with my Nvidia card before finding out that the project doesn't support Nvidia for ideological reasons.
I'm not well versed in the details of the conflict, and of course any open source project is not compelled to support anything they don't want to. That being said it would have been nice to know that they have no plans to support a large percentage (majority?) of the consumer, dedicated GPU market.
If/when I am able to get a new AMD card I will certainly try it then.
- ddevault 8y agoIt merits re-empathising that it's Nvidia that does not support sway - not the other way around.
- 7e 8y agoThe makers of the world's best and most popular graphics cards will never compromise their goals to accommodate an i3 clone. I think it's fair that the smaller entity support the larger one.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoOur policy bubbles down to wlroots, which is the basis of a huge variety of Wayland compositors. However, we only need to support Nvidia if our goals include "adoption by Nvidia users". But they don't, so we aren't going to.
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- newnewpdro 8y agoThis isn't an i3 vs. nvidia situation, this is linux kms/drm progress vs. nvidia. nvidia is simply being uncooperative.
- meditate 8y agoThose kind of corporate bullying tactics are not particularly welcome in open-source communities.
- mediocrejoker 8y agoThat's fair, but if your stance is that users should be educated to vote with their wallets, then I wonder if you've considered adding a disclaimer on the site saying "Nvidia users don't waste your time, here's why"?
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agohttps://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki