If you haven’t tried niri yet, it’s pretty great. If you are interested in a tiling WM and don’t want to mess with the omarchy/hyprland fascists, I recommend checking it out. The tiling behavior makes sense and there aren’t several dozen shortcuts to learn before you can use it properly.

And if you want to play around with a distro where it’s set up my default, check out zirconium. One of the reasons that kept me away from trying a tiling window manager was because I didn’t want to mess with a bunch of config files before my laptop became not-annoying to use, and this has a decent set up from the start.

It’s a universal blue (fedora atomic) derivative built on niri and dankmaterialshell, and it’s great for older hardware. I installed on a 10 year old laptop, and it feels brand new. From what I can tell Niri+DMS uses about half the resources as a gnome or kde desktop. It’s extremely smooth, stable, and has very sensible and minimal default software installed. It’s focus is developers, but you can still game on it. It just won’t have all the bells and whistles of something like bazzite preinstalled.

Niri is also easy to set up with CachyOS from what I understand.

I rate it 9 out of 10 linuxes. halal

  • Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I really like the Zirconium devs, most of whom also work on Bazzite. There’s an image that is a mash of Zirconium and Bazzite called Bazzirco.

    I can’t get into Niri though. I use about 6 different workspaces that are for specific tasks and I always leave the programs I need open in them. I have some configured with 1 window taking up 60% of the right side of my monitor, one window in the upper left, then two smaller windows side-by-side below that. Niri doesn’t let you do stacks like that with 1 on top of 2 smaller sized windows. Not if you’re using it as its really intended anyway. I need better “zone” behavior instead. PlasmaZones gives me that rn.

    • TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      5·
      16 days ago

      There’s an image that is a mash of Zirconium and Bazzite called Bazzirco.

      Oh nice, I’ll remember that if I switch my main PC to niri.

      I can’t get into Niri though. I use about 6 different workspaces that are for specific tasks and I always leave the programs I need open in them.

      Oh yeah, I’ve heard thats an issue people have with it. Thats too bad. I’m not using an advanced setup, but saving layouts would be a nice feature.