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Wayland: I3 to Sway Migration – Anarcat

by ossusermivami on 10/24/24, 10:43 PM with 15 comments

• by kisonecat on 10/26/24, 5:02 PM

  I tried moving to Wayland and hyprland last year, but I couldn't get Zoom to handle screen sharing (specifically window sharing). I wonder if this has improved at all?

• by gausswho on 10/25/24, 5:03 AM

  Always interested to read how others are choosing their tools, but if you don't want to get as bogged down in these details and are more inclined towards a rolling distro, I can vouch for Manjaro Sway. I've been using it for three ywars now on the original Framework laptop and while it has had some bumps along the way I am happy for the sensible decisions the maintainers have made for me, including most of the items here.

  Would be nice to see a Debian or Fedora Silverblue equivalent of this kind of opinionated Sway base.

• by jokethrowaway on 10/25/24, 5:47 AM

  I used wayland for a long time some years ago and it was basically the same experience, Screensharing was the main blocker back then.

  Never noticed a difference in terms of snappiness or tearing.

  Nowadays I have a nvidia gpu and wayland + proprietary drivers has tons of issues, so I switched to x11.

  I could probably use the integrated gpu (amd) to drive the desktop and use nvidia purely for ai/ml (which would free up some extra vram) but then I can't play videogames on the nvidia card.

• by usr1106 on 10/25/24, 6:26 AM

  I still have the i3 to sway switch in front of me. Screen sharing is a daily must in my work, so at least somewhat in the past there were too many warning voices.

  Fedora has a sway spin. I wonder whether that "just works" (TM).

• by dubbel on 10/25/24, 12:59 PM

  The article was written on 2022-11-16. Would be interesting to know if things have gotten easier.