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Additional cons:
- Layouts break easily
- Multi-monitor is close to unusable
It's definitely not perfect. 9 times out of 10, its great, but in that 1 time, it breaks in quite spectacular ways.
I've been a massive supporter of Plasma almost ever since I started using linux all together, but with the recent Cosmic releases, native tiling has been quite an appealing feature. If things improve there towards full release, and beyond, my nix setup is all ready to be switched
As a user of Krohnkite, I am interested into the problem of Layouts breaking easily. What do you mean by that? As for the multi monitor, well I am single monitor user, so never cared about this issue.
It's been a while since I last gave it a try, but I remember frequently ending up in strange states where a window wouldn't want to tile properly. Windows would also frequently end up overlapping or extending beyond the screen, in ways they just wouldn't when I was using Sway, Hyperland or Niri. IIRC mouse dragging and mouse resizing windows was extremely jank too.
Most of this is KWin's fault as far as I know, it's built for stacking window management and there's only so much you can fix with scripting around it. It's also the reason for the bad multi-monitor experience; the way it interacts with workspaces in particular is in my opinion not useful and never what I want.
Oh yes, that tiling issue is solved (if you had the same as me, but you probably had). I had huge tiling issues in the beginning of the transition phase from its codebase KDE 5 to 6 and on top of it on Wayland. It's noteworthy that Kwin developers specifically addressed issues with Krohnkite, and even noted that in the update notes. I am using it quite some time now (a year or longer maybe) and it works basically correctly like any other standalone tiler.
Just my personal experience on a single monitor, as I am single. (yes I wrote that, just to make a joke, but I really use one monitor only)
Relevant post: https://beehaw.org/post/22870135
Tip. You can use the cross-post function of Lemmy. This will automatically link the original post and also all posts linking to the same source on the web are linked together in a list. So we can see how often it was "shared" and open their post directly to see others replies.
Instantly not going to use something someone is telling me to use.
I use this setup on one of my (1/5) arch installs - it’s quite nice and fluid overall but not my preferred solution. krinner is quite a nice launcher though
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