Started with Sway to ease the migration, but just this week - after a few months of Waylanding - I decided to try Hyprland to see what’s all the hype (hyp?) is about. I didn’t like it - it was pretty, yes, but it felt sluggish and the multi-monitor support has some deal-breaking issues.
So I looked at other alternatives, and found Niri. I fell in love. It has both eye-candy and performance, and the combination of tiling and sliding is pure genius.
It’s kind of new (version 0.1.0 was released two years ago)
Is it easy to migrate from i3?
The mental model is a bit different, but I got used to it quite quickly. Configuration-wise, no matter which WM you pick the migration from X11 to Wayland will be the bulk of the work.
What do you use in there?
Started with Sway to ease the migration, but just this week - after a few months of Waylanding - I decided to try Hyprland to see what’s all the hype (hyp?) is about. I didn’t like it - it was pretty, yes, but it felt sluggish and the multi-monitor support has some deal-breaking issues.
So I looked at other alternatives, and found Niri. I fell in love. It has both eye-candy and performance, and the combination of tiling and sliding is pure genius.
Niri? Never heard of it! Is it easy to migrate from i3?
It’s kind of new (version 0.1.0 was released two years ago)
The mental model is a bit different, but I got used to it quite quickly. Configuration-wise, no matter which WM you pick the migration from X11 to Wayland will be the bulk of the work.
I saw it is Rust coded too 😌👌🏼
Interesting!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeYx2exm04M