I love i3wm and would like to switch to sway for the advantages of not using xorg. But is it worth it with a laptop that has an old nividia/intel hybrid video card? I had read that it was complicated to use nvidia cards with wayland

  • finestnothing@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 years ago

    I have a 3080 ti, you can run sway with sway --unsupported-gpu on Nvidia cards, but it has a lot of problems and things frequently don’t work, I don’t even recommend trying it. I’ve tried most solutions that I could find with no success. You’re better off just sticking with i3 until Nvidia or Wayland gives in (don’t hold your breath though, it’s not going to be any time soon)

  • StrangeAstronomer@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 months ago

    I have several laptops that all have nvidia/intel cards (it’s hard to avoid them). They all work perfectly with sway using the nouveau drivers. I haven’t tried the proprietary drivers as I have no use for gaming, just firefox, emacs, mythtv and mpv movies.