Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland.
Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator?
I’ve played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.
Sway and foot work pretty decently. Might want to check them out.
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imv looks good, thanks for the link
I’m a bit confused, I left Reddit to escape emacs users…should I be on kbin instead?
There is no saving your soul; Emacs is life, Emacs is death. /j
Please don’t blame the lack of popularity, Vivarium works and its feature complete. The dev answers to the recent github issues.
i3-like WMs are underfeatured and Hyprland is less minimal than Vivarium.
Thanks, looks cool.
I find i3 & dwm a bit much out of the box and need to remove titles, borders & hide the status bar. Hyprland had a lot going on, will check out Vivarium.
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I use sway wm with the foot terminal emulator. If you do not like manual tiling I have heard good things about river wm.
Sway with Alacritty, been my daily driver for the past year.
I just wanted alacrity OSC133 support so much
Thanks, I have i3 & kitty atm so not a huge leap.
I’m personally fond of Sway and Kitty
stacking wm -> wayfire
tiling wm -> sway [corrected, i don’t know what was going through my mind]
terminal emulator -> alacritty or foot
Sway is a tiling wm and wayfire looks like a floating wm to me. I don’t know what a „stacking“ wm is, but afaik you can stack in sway.
thanks for the correction, i don’t what i was thinking while writing that. i guess i couldn’t decide floating or stacking for wayfire so the whole thing broke down :)
I thing they meant “floating”.
Labwc is really a decent window manager that can pretty much be used on its own without a panel (I think). I think foot is pretty fast, but I just use gnome console, because I’m a savage.
Cheers, will give it a look
Hyprland or sway, anything wlroots based really, and I use alacritty.
Try RedoxOS: https://www.redox-os.org/faq/
If you’re into developing or willing to learn Rust, it can even offer you a paid summerjob. RedoxOS runs even on Pentium III.
Cheers, looks interesting but don’t think it can cover my daily drivers needs.
I am using kde with wayland. Works pretty well. Even with nvidia 3080.
May give KDE another spin someday when I have a machine better suited but not for this potato.
I like puppy linux as a distro for old laptop refurb, starts lean and mean, allowing older laptops to recapture some of their former glory.
Void is my plan. I went with Fedora last time as I couldn’t be bothered setting up Void properly and Fedora was the only distro with a generic kernel that seemed old mac trackapd/keyboard friendly at time. I’ve not tried Puppy for a long time, I tend to opt for AntiX or Porteus in that kinda area.
