I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.

Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon

  • @ZenzioEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Well, the benefit is Sway being on Wayland which is slowly but surely replacing Xorg (i3 is on Xorg). Xorg is in maintenance mode now and Wayland is being actively developed. I think Wayland can be considered the default now, since major DEs like KDE and Gnome have switched to it. One thing that gets mentioned a lot when talking about the benefits of Wayland (and therefore Sway) is better multi-monitor compatibility. So if you’re running i3wm with two or more displays (running with different frame rates) you might want to switch to Sway or anything running on Wayland.