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by ratsimihah 2798 days ago
What does that exactly mean for Nvidia GPU users?
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Use the proprietary nvidia driver and X for gaming or 3D-related work, use Nouveau, Wayland and Sway on your other computers.
It means that you can't use sway (or any other compositor based on wlroots) with the proprietary nvidia driver. Instead, you should use the nouveau driver.
My experiences with nouveau have been anything but stable. I don't know why people would recommend alpha quality software over alternatives.
You have a choice of A: give up the improved performance and features of the proprietary driver to use i3 with wayland, no longer able to take screenshots or use secondary monitors

B: continue using i3 with X

You can take screenshots and use secondary monitors on sway, I use four displays at home, including one rotated 90 degrees and one 4K display, to make sure I test each use-case before anything breaks for end-users. The performance of the novueau driver is adequate for most non-gaming workstations.
> You can take screenshots

can you, with any app that takes screenshots ? e.g. with SimpleScreenRecorder or flameshot ?

No, they will require patches to support Wayland. But we have created portable protocols which will allow you to take screenshots on 10+ Wayland compositors and are on track for standardization. Third-party screenshot clients already exist, like grim:

https://wayland.emersion.fr/grim/