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Re:Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights by tbrock on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:41AM (#18268159)
Can you not run sway with an Nvidia card?
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Re:Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights by Sir_Cmpwn on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:47AM (#18268206)
There are two Linux drivers for Nvidia GPUs: proprietary (nvidia) and open source (nouveau). Only the latter is supported by sway, and it has inferior performance and doesn't support newer cards well.
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Re:Sway 1.0-beta.1 release highlights by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:48AM (#18268213)
You can, but only with nouveau, which performs considerably worse. This is because Sway only supports GBM and nVidia only supports EGLStreams.
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