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I Finally Tried Niri, The New Way Of Tiling Linux Users Are Going Crazy About (feed.itsfoss.com)

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[–] somegeek@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i3wm-ist here. Niri also didn't provide anything to me i3 didn't. It was actually more dificcult and less productive for my professional work with two monitors. But for laptop only usage it's amazing.

i3 to sway is pretty smooth. You don't have to change much and after a while you forget if youre using i3 or sway.

[–] noobdoomguy8658@feddit.org 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Multi-monitor i3 really ruins virtually any non-i3 multi-monitor, with a few exception of other tiling window managers, I think.

I heard KDE introducing something similar, but I can't imagine it being as convenient.

I'm thinking of migrating to sway on a full-AMD machine I have, but I think it had shown me some attitude a couple of times and I didn't bother further.

Aside from the best practices and safety, what can Wayland provide to me on a mostly-work machine? I know I'll miss .Xresources for the colors across multiple applications, though.

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

I'm taking the same approach for my main work laptop. As long as X11 is working, I probably won't bother moving to wayland/sway.