Laughs in 15 virtual desktops
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If you have ever lost track of your editor because Firefox decided to squish it into a 200-pixel-wide column, you know exactly how jarring that can be.
so, instead, your terminal is lost off the edge of the screen.
doesn't tabbed window layout address this issue?
I guess this is more like if tabbed window layout doesn't fit your brain model, here is an alternative that maybe does, i just struggle to find much of a difference. maybe this is just easy mode for split window tabs?
either way, i love that there are options.
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Niri & Noctalia are awesome. It's not quite as easy to configure as Cosmic Desktop, but the paradigm works way better and faster when you get used to it.
I was also a bit resistant to the idea, but somehow finally got it. Probably on the 5th try.
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And crucially, it is written entirely in Rust. Which could be a deciding point for some.
I am a programmer, and in my opinion, unless you are planning at looking at the source code and don't want to mess with other languages, you as a user should not care about whether the program you're about to use is written in Rust.
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Rust has become popular among programming enthusiasts due to resulting in fast programs while avoiding memory management problems that come from using some other "fast" languages such as C. Not just that, but Rust achieves that while also avoiding the most common approach to this problem, which is garbage collection. Garbage collection is often seen as slow, despite, when compared to C's manual memory management, garbage collection not being that far behind when well optimized. That's why some Rust enthusiasts write that their Rust programs are "Blazingly Fast 🔥", instead of writing "very fast" like everyone else. Those same enthusiasts take the fact that, as I've said before, Rust avoids the memory management problems from some "fast" languages such as C, and advertise it as "Rust makes programs safer and remove entire classes of bugs while keeping it fast". None of these "ads" are wrong, but they can be a bit misleading to those who don't know much about programming.
First of all, a programmer can definitely make slow and buggy programs with Rust. Rust "fights" against bad memory management, but that's a small part of the issues that can rise from bad programming. Any programming language can try to "fight" bad programming practices (something that Rust tries to do), but there's always a limit to how much bad habits you can catch. Secondly, Rust isn't the only language that can offer fast, memory-safe programs. I've heard about benchmarks that showed that OCaml is one of the "fastest" programming languages, and it's a language that uses garbage collection. Many other examples exist. Heck, I've even heard of guidelines for fast memory-unsafe programming languages to avoid memory managent problems (here's an example https://misra.org.uk/).
I'm not saying this because I hate Rust, or anything. Rust is a really cool programming language that seems to be really useful for memory-constrained environments. However, just like any other programming language, it's a tool, not a magic wand. As such, please don't treat it like a miraculous solution to make your programs faster and less buggy.
You should instead look at how much care the developers put into their own programs. Now that's a good deciding point for whether to install a program.
Happy hacking! :)
(P.S.: please correct me if I wrote anything wrong)
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But it's a scrolling wm...
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Niri was the first tiling wm that really clicked with me. It with noctalia are now my go-to laptop setup.
Looks interesting, and I thought KDE when? But, of course, it's already there as Karousel. On the list of things to audit when I feel like futzing with UI again.
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I want my xmonad to live for ever
I'd love to try Niri. The only Wayland compositor that I have used for a long term is Hyprland, and it was an awful experience for me; I found it a little difficult to configure.
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I've tried WMs a number of times but the sheer amount of shit not working out of the box (or ever) is just awful.
I have Niri + Noctalia on my laptop rn and it's nice for most tasks, but so limited. configuring external monitors doesn't work right. the steam flatpak doesn't even display a window. the builtin clipboard manager doesn't work. Non-linux people watch me use this and they decide that linux is unusable.
I mean zero disrespect to any of the people building these fantastic tools but I keep crawling back to KDE Plasma. Am I doing something wrong hahah
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Guess I'll try this though Karousel. Like Krohnkite.
Thanks OP!
And before you ask, I've been through my "modular WM shopping" phase in Linux. While it's nice, for me, having a full DE is nice too.
Things like remembering a WiFi password just work. I don't have to spend hours reading documentation, and hunting for my own typos in text files, to configure my mouse, or printer, or display. I don't have to research and research and conclude HDR/VRR or some specific graphical app just isn't going to work, or script my own features from scratch.
And resource usage?
By the time I install what I need, I end up with less RAM used in debloated KDE than custom tiling configs. Maybe I could get it down with hundreds of man hours put in to testing and integration, and then maintain the custom configuration myself for the future instead of letting my distro handle that, but... well. I'd rather not.
The project is inspired by PaperWM, a GNOME Shell extension that brings scrollable tiling to GNOME.
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I wish them all the best , except if they're part of fascist open source, in which case, they can get bent.
But then again, I have my KDE task manager so that it only shows tasks from the current screen on it, and even I sometimes find that disorientating.
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