I was put in the WM game 6 month ago with i3, then i give dwm and awesome a try, i love dwm, before that i was using xfce and gnome, and after playing with some compositor such as compton my problems was with the flickering when resizing, scrolling, playing video, whatever, and two years ago i was testing gnome with wayland and i felt the difference, so i was knowing why to give sway a try,
desktop manager : tty :p exec sway,
launcher : wofi
os : archlinux
kernel : linux-xanmod
file manager : pcmanfm / lf
browser : firefox/ ozone chromium
terminal : alacritty
fonts : input condensed patched with nerd fonts/ i also edit some icons as i wish (:
text editor : nvim
bar : waybar
What i think of sway:
pros :
fluidity
footprint
configuration difficulty
documentation
cons :
xwayland compatibility for some apps/ but i put that on the absence of sway versions for the software, i am hopping for future software support of wayland,
stability : in my case i have some app crashing with no apparent reason, it can be alacritty closing all my session or firefox /full wayland in my case
some app just don't work or launch over wayland but once more, not wayland fault
the impossibility for using nvidia proprietary driver, due to the absent of support of GBM, and the EGL direction that nvidia took, a great man say once " buy your hardware wih open-source in mind " he was right, i will go for amd for sure for my next computer
the absence of predifined layout for windows placing: i don't know what to think about that, i3 is not dynamic to, and in my case i use an automatic split toggle to have a fibonnacci layout by default, but this ability in dwm and awesome, like center master was so nice !
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If you have some advice, or tips to improve my experience with sway you are very welcome (: , if you have some question i will be happy to answer them,
it is my main desktop for the moment but i keep an x11 xfce if xorg needed
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