• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    Says the man who made one lol. I am still using hyprland because the sad thing is i like it but im trying to switch to something that is not made by a transphobe… what do yall recommend?

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      Cosmic-comp is my second favorite after hyprland so far due to their tiling being quite well thought-out. The problem is, it’s part of a DE and is somewhat cumbersome to configure as a standalone compositor (can be fixed by patching libcosmic, tho), and also it’s quite bare-bones when it comes to features.

      Then there’s pinnacle which looks promising, but I haven’t yet tried to daily-drive it.

      Also, maybe qtile, which has a Wayland back-end.

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        Qtile was my first daily driver tiling WM. It was a pain in the ass to install, but it’s damn near as extensible as DWM (since the config file is literally a python program). The only thing I hate about it is that you can’t reposition windows in the tiling layout by drag-and-drop.

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        7 days ago

        Ill try out your suggestions. Ive thought about using cosmic but its alpha and it will have a bunch of stuff i wont use probably.

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      I’m a big fan of niri, which is a scrolling tiling compositor. I always had a soft spot for tiling wms/compositors, but couldn’t stick with any of them for long until I tried niri, and wholeheartedly embraced the scrolling tiling world.

      Very friendly upstream & community, and written in a modern language, too.

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        7 days ago

        If touchpad gestures work, I’m putting that on my macbook air. That looks so comfortable.

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          It does support a number of gestures, yeah. Can’t comment on how well they work, because I do not use a touchpad. But if the quality of the rest of the compositor is any indication, they should work really darn well.

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        7 days ago

        I dont think ill like scrolling tiling but you never know so ill try. At first i thought tiling was stupid and now look i feel like im digitally dissabled when i use a pure floating system.

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      You’ve gotten good responses already, but I just live and let live with Gnome’s Mutter & KDE’s Kwin. It’s worth mentioning that they’re both highly polished offerings. But I would also understand why one wouldn’t want to use either.

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        I love KDE and use it as my daily driver, but talking strictly about the tilling experience, it just ain’t it.
        I’ve tried both Polonium and a updated fork of Kröhnkite for Plasma 6, and neither them were as nice as Hyprland…

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      Whoa - hyprland is made by a transphobe?

      Edit: whoa it really is. I joined their discord and saw like, very strict anti-lgbtqphobic rules and thought that they must be good. But looking into him… Turns out the rules are there because he’d let it fester into a 4chan toxic hellhole