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Nearly all of my complaints about i3wm evaporated when I switched over to using Sway.
by markstos 5y ago
Nearly all of my complaints about i3wm evaporated when I switched over to using Sway.
- klyrs 5y agoOkay, I'll bite. What didn't you like about i3 and/or what does Sway do better?
- markstos 5y agoI was interested to use Wayland for its more secure design. Also, X11 is considered abandonware by the maintainers: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-Abandonware https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-... As long as I was getting started with a new environment I wanted to make a forward-looking choice. Due to Wayland, Sway does have smoother window resizing with less jank. One detail I liked about Sway at the time is that it supposed an "include" file directive, allowing you to break up your config file. i3wm has recently adopted that feature from Sway: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-Abandonware https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=XServer-...