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		josteink on Feb 26, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux Desktop Setup Sway has too many bleeding edge dependencies last time I checked, so it’s hard to get built and running on a “conventional” desktop-oriented desktop like Ubuntu. The author has iirc even actively discouraged Ubuntu and Debian from packaging it, because he doesn’t want distro users creating bug reports on older versions (ie noise) for bugs already fixed in git master. Once sway lands for regular distro-users, I’ll be there. For now I’ll stick to i3.

matt-snider on Feb 26, 2019 [–]

Sway is very close to a 1.0 release, 1.0-rc4 was just released: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/1735

It is and has been quite stable as a regular user on the sway-git version for awhile, but I can't comment on what it's like for Ubuntu or Debian.

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