I’ve been running The Meme Distro for about 6 years now, preferring i3wm (an X11 window manager). I’ve got an AMD processor, and a current-gen NVIDIA GPU, and I run the 545 drivers. Additionally, I had some disused Plasma config lurking in disparate places all over my home folder.
Just the other day, I decided to give `plasma-session-wayland` a try. It didn’t go well at all, with my primary user. I could get a black desktop and a cursor, and eventually my startup application windows began to show themselves. I was able to summon krunner and launch Steam, then launch a game (Satisfactory). It played, but would occassionally reproject an older frame, giving a bad experience. No amount of removing user-level configuration files would remedy the problem.
I created a new user and launched Plasma with that user, and I didn’t have any of the graphical glitches I’d experienced with my previous fella. Didn’t go as far as to install Steam and a game, for that user. Instead, I tried to clean up Plasma’s config files and restore my primary user to a “clean slate”. That failed miserably. There’s no consistency to the locations of Plasma application configs, even for the core programs.
Went back to my precious i3 and played “full-screen” games in tiled windows, happy as a lark.
Thanks for sharing the sway perspective! I’m an avid i3 enjoyer running similar hardware, and it’s great to hear that my most-likely Wayland window manager is giving a decent experience. :)