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[–] 41 points 2 years ago (50 children)

Let's do it right here!
Sway is a Wayland i3 implementation and you really should be using Wayland instead of X.

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    The Sway implementation (not Wayland as some DEs seem to run really smoothly) sadly is still completely hit or miss depending on your exact hardware setup. I have two device (both even with nvidia grphics *sigh*) and one of them is just a buggy and flickering mess.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    No, you only should be using Wayland if you need some of it's features. If you don't need mixed refresh rate/mixed scaling you're fine using X.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    X is abandonware and full of security issues probably time to switch to maintained aoftware

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sure, activity in the repo and new versions don't prove the project isn't abandoned... Maybe you just don't know what abandonwere means?

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    No one stops you from moving to Wayland. It has it's uses. But the FUD you're spreading is stupid and boring. X is fine, it's exactly what a lot of people need and it doesn't make sense to move their DEs to Wayland only because it's 'new'. The fact that it took Wayland 10 years to reach any sort of usability shows just how little does it offer to an average user.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    X' architecture is insecure. There's no isolation between windows, and each process can spy on your input. That's just one example.
    Wayland is necessary.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    For a while I would have agreed, and I used sway for years. But recently I switched back to i3 (i3-rounded) due to display issues with my AMD GPU. I started doing most of my development in the TTY, and found that switching from TTY to Wayland takes half a second and can sometimes break my GPU (until I switch between TTY and display a few times). With X11 it's instant and without issue Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―. Hoping that gets fixed down the road, or that it's specific to my GPU.

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