Doesn’t even mention deadbeef lmao

You know - when you list two points, and I refer to those two points in my response, maybe assume that I’m responding in the same order you listed?

Nothing was quickly caught and fixed, the bug report is 7 months old:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/13319

Ok fair, but I still think that “a few bugs that make it not act like i3” is quite different from “doesn’t have backwards compat with i3 right”.

There is way more, it also fails with my i3config.

So don’t use Sway, plenty of DEs are more polished.

If you are an i3 user the only solution is sway.

which is relatively new, has unresolved bugs that i3, which is older, does not have.

sway is 10 years old and they haven’t gotten backwards compat with i3 right, let alone other wayland specific issues like not having fifo v1.

and one bug that was quickly caught and fixed

The performance regression? It hasn’t been fixed.

Maybe don’t use a distro that is specifically known for shipping new software very quickly.

You will run into old wayland bugs lol, like GTK4 apps being totally broken on intel.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38373

and often structurally much better

On wayland even getting apps to draw their own icons is a total disaster, and doesn’t help the constant sabotage from gnome of refusing to fix those issues, and don’t get me started on the csd mess which is another source of nightmares.

Wayland suffers a lot of internal fragmentation, we didn’t see these kind of issues in the move from pulseaudio to pipewire because there is really only one implemenation of pipewire, guess what would have happened a bunch of DEs decided to make their own implementations of pipewire instead?

lol

• https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8000
• https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8001
• https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8002
• https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/8191

And I have amd btw (bought the gpu to try sway in specific).

Also nvidia in specific, the creator of i3 recently made this post detailing all the issues he has had switching to sway:

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-01-04-wayland-sway-in-2026/

edit: sway doesn’t even support fifo v1 ffs.

Ah, if it’s not working right for you, it obviously means it’s not working right for 60% of people.

Actually that is not too far off from being true.

mesa right now has this massive regression on wayland: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/14674

And not long ago all gtk4 apps were totally broken on intel with wayland, this was recently fixed on mesa but that change has only hit people using archlinux and other rolling release distros.