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Which WM should i use? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

I want to balance looks and performance.

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[-] autonomous@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

no stability is not a concern? a great many choices lay ahead!

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

I've been liking KDE Plasma a bit too much. Currently using it for everything.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago

Sway is quite a safe bet. SwayFX if you want rounded corners, shadows, or blurring.

[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

ok. Guess i'm switching from hyprland to sway.

[-] gramgan@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago

I’ve found Hyprland to be more stable and performant than Sway, but I haven’t used Sway since January. As the other commenter said, it also has more features. You could definitely turn off enough Hyprland features to get a more Sway-like experience visually.

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

Ah, well SwayFX doesn't have animations. Use it if you like (I do), but Hyprland does have more features.

[-] tux0r@feddit.org 6 points 17 hours ago
[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

I meant window manager. T_T

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 8 points 16 hours ago

Window Maker is a window manager.

[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 16 hours ago

o rly?

Interesting...

[-] sanderium@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I cross-posted to Window Managers. You can ask anything there.

:)


I find River to be the fastest but Sway would be the best balanced option, and most similar to Hyprland than River.

[-] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

It's be useful if you linked the post. I can't find it.

[-] sanderium@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

That is weird it should show that it is cross-posted.

Only one replied but here it is

[-] JustineSmithies@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Give MaomaoWM a shot it's like dwl, river, hyprland all rolled into one and is very light on resources.

https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/maomaowm

[-] Tundra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago
[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I've been using i3 for a long time. It's extremely practical while still looking good with relatively small amount of effort, it has sane defaults IMO and it's utterly stable. If you really want window margins, you should probably look elsewhere, though - i3-gaps works well, but it's really annoying to update it manually every time there's an update for i3 (I don't think window margins are worth it, though, they just waste so much screen space). i3 also doesn't support Wayland.

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