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It merits re-empathising that it's Nvidia that does not support sway - not the other way around.
by ddevault 8y ago
It 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