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Your recommendations for (Wayland) tiling window managers? Need some guidance before getting started (feddit.de)

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I'm interested in TWMs for some while now.
Currently, I'm running Gnome with the Forge extension, which gives me a quite nice tiling with the full fledged DE experience I need.

Especially Hyprland is the project I have an eye on the most. The ultra-smooth animations are just out of this world! (I'm not only locked on Hyprland tho.)

My current setup feels a bit clunky, and I want something proper, without losing the comfort of a fully functioning DE.
My end goal maybe would be making my own uBlue-image with a setup that works sane out of the box.

Are there any setups and recommendations of needed packages?

How do Sway, Hyprland and other TWMs differ from each other?
Which one would you recommend for starters, and which one is "the best"?

What do I need to know before getting started? Should I just dive into it head first?

If I have to ask all these questions, would you just say I should ditch the idea for now, with my current level of knowledge and time?

What has your experience been? Any problems I may encounter?

Thank you for your answers?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I also tried that too. Bismuth and all the other ones.

There were some that were actually okay tbh, but they are still janky, like they aren't supposed to exist. In that regard, KDE (Kwin) is even worse than Gnome (Mutter), at least bug wise and in my own experience.

They all felt like I am using a tractor to drive to work. They work, yes, but I think I will get a better experience on something that was designed from the ground up to work like that.
I wanna let floating WMs do their thing, and tiling WMs do theirs.

Edit: The best one was Polonium, but it was very buggy and I couldn't even close or move windows graphically. The documentation didn't help too.