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Re:Sway 1.0 is not going to support the Nvidia proprietary d... by kelnos on Friday October 27, 2017 @12:52AM (#15565799)
I think it's perfectly understandable (and perhaps even useful) to lose your composure when you have a bunch of users who act entitled and complain about your (free) software being "broken", when it's the fault of their GPU vendor, who makes a ton of money off their user base.
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Re:Sway 1.0 is not going to support the Nvidia proprietary d... by djur on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:27AM (#15566163)
It seems like a big problem for the Wayland ecosystem that support for a large category of video cards depends on one volunteer.
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Re:Sway 1.0 is not going to support the Nvidia proprietary d... by Qwertious on Friday October 27, 2017 @11:38AM (#15569430)
>support for a large category of video cards depends on one volunteer.

How did you come to that conclusion? SirCmpwn doesn't maintain Wayland Nvidia support, just the Sway Compositor. If you want a Wayland compositor that supports Nvidia-proprietary, you can use GNOME.

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Re:Sway 1.0 is not going to support the Nvidia proprietary d... by djur on Friday October 27, 2017 @05:41PM (#15572449)
The last time Sway came up as a topic at HN there was a conversation about whether a particular terminal manager was compatible with it yet. It seems to me that if the applications you use can have compatibility issues with the compositor you use, if you want to use an application your choice of compositors will be necessarily restrained to those that are compatible. And if compositors can be compatible or incompatible with particular hardware, that means that it's possible to have an application you want to use that is only compatible with compositors that are incompatible with your hardware.

What am I missing?

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Re:Sway 1.0 is not going to support the Nvidia proprietary d... by jorams on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:26AM (#15566363)
It doesn't. Support for that large category of video cards depends on the manufacturer of those video cards.
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