# sway

[sway][sway] is an i3-compatible Wayland compositor.

## Use Cases

sway can be used to:

- Have the benefits of a tiling window manager like i3 in Wayland

You should not use sway if:

- Your GPU driver doesn't support [Generic Buffer Management (GBM)][wayland-requirements]

[sway]: https://github.com/swaywm/sway
[wayland-requirements]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Requirements