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Nvidia and Sway

Sway requires KMS. For some reason this requires flag for kernel to be enabled:

In /etc/default/grub add to kernel list and reload grub with update-grub:

nvidia-drm.modeset=1

You can run cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset after reboot to see if it got enabled.

Sway needs to be started with --unsupported-gpu - nobody likes Nvidia.