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We don't need more Wayland Compositors
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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?
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.
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...
I have been really happy with sway. It does all that I want it to do.
Sway is my safe option. I will check out what kind of rices people cooked up with it and maybe i see somethig nice i can copy.
There is also SwayFX if you go with Sway and want (a little) more customization.
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.
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.
If touchpad gestures work, I'm putting that on my macbook air. That looks so comfortable.
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.
river, its by far the nicest to configure and use
river is awesome, and I like it even beyond bspwm.
Unfortunately bspwm is better. Binary separation allowed for just about any layout imaginable, but river does not.
river has community layouts and I'm currently using bsp-layout, it's not the same as bspwm but somewhat similar. Also the developer of river is working on to separate the window management which will allow basically anything related to layouts.
Fortunately, you are wrong, there are BSP layouts for river.
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.
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.
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.