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X11 tiling WMs (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am potentially going to be able to put Linux on my work PC soon, have been using it on my personal PC and laptop quite happily with hyprland ontop of NixOS

Thinking of using NixOS for my work machine as well, however I don't want to use hyprland or even Wayland as I need this machine to be stable and reliable (Nvidia GPU)

Is I3 still the best option for this or are there better alternatives? (leaning towards I3 ontop of KDE)

I'm also somewhat tempted to just go GNOME with the forge extension as it seems the most reliable, though the tiling on that extension is far from perfect

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[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There is no "best WM", only "best WM for you". If you're deep enough into this rabbit hole to install an alternative WM, at this point you're the best judge of what's the best, really.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I love hyprland, the question was more asking if there's anything I'm likely to like that's more robust and on x11 given that I like hyprland

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hyprland's Dwindle layout is based on bspwm, so why not try that?

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Might give that one a go I've heard good things

Not specifically about bsp but is there anything similar waybar on x11? I really like how waybar works so far and would appreciate a similar system on x

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Waybar just looks like a Wayland port of Polybar.