Sway with Nvidia Tutorial

Well, no. The packages are different variations of what you linked. Depending on what you need/want you can pick and choose. The ‘to make it run’ part is because, having monitored the Nvidia thread since its creation, it is evident there is a lot of variation of what combination of packages and settings will work for each user. For example - and this is still present I believe - the git variations of Sway and wlroots refuse to run for some users (argb8888 & xrgb8888 errors) but the normal variations work, whereas others - like me - can run the git versions fine.

Nvidia do not care about Wayland, and the Sway and wlroots developers do not want to support closed source drivers. Making Sway run with Nvidia’s drivers is a large effort from a small number of dedicated users, and as a result what ‘works’ or does not work varies.

Glad you made it work without issues!

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