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I also have to add that I'm no IT-guy. I'm pretty much only a tech-enthusiastic normie who likes Linux and tries a lot.
I don't have any experience in coding and think I will mainly use the templates (dotfiles, bars, search box, etc.) from others, at least for the start.
What do you like about the Manjaro-Sway? What does it differently than other implementations?
I will definitely give it a try to test it out and then try to replicate it in Fedora. Thanks!
The suckless software is a big no for me. It might be good for some people, but I heard most of it is hard to configure (at least for a noob like myself) and comes very ...minimalist... out of the box.
I don't like the suckless philosophy for my use case, I want "bloat", as weird as it sounds. I don't want or need a super minimalist system, I want it comfortable and everything working out of the box.
Manjaro Sway ships with eyecandy and a lots of very useful functionality. The background even includes the default keybinds.
Suckless approach is IMO way more easier than Sway. What helps a lot is that you write an alias which compiles your new config and then reloads the WM. It requires the reload patch + just few another to make it useful.
The thing about bloated means usually you have festures you never use and you still need to learn the way other people did for you. When you start building it from bare minimum you add only the configurations you need and then it is much easier to remembee how they work. That's why I never tried Hyprland.