It merits re-empathising that it's Nvidia that does not support sway - not the other way around.
Re:Sway 1.0
by mediocrejoker on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:49PM
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That's fair, but if your stance is that users should be educated to vote with their wallets, then I wonder if you've considered adding a disclaimer on the site saying "Nvidia users don't waste your time, here's why"?
The makers of the world's best and most popular graphics cards will never compromise their goals to accommodate an i3 clone. I think it's fair that the smaller entity support the larger one.
Our policy bubbles down to wlroots, which is the basis of a huge variety of Wayland compositors.
However, we only need to support Nvidia if our goals include "adoption by Nvidia users". But they don't, so we aren't going to.
Re:Sway 1.0
by newnewpdro on Monday March 11, 2019 @03:39PM
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This isn't an i3 vs. nvidia situation, this is linux kms/drm progress vs. nvidia.
nvidia is simply being uncooperative.
I'm not well versed in the details of the conflict, and of course any open source project is not compelled to support anything they don't want to. That being said it would have been nice to know that they have no plans to support a large percentage (majority?) of the consumer, dedicated GPU market.
If/when I am able to get a new AMD card I will certainly try it then.