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• @pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-29 11:13

  The young fellows love this eye candy, and so I do. You’re right, I need to give a tiling WM a try. I have already thought about how inconvenient constant switching between the keyboard and the mouse is, and how unergonomic touchpads are.

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• @alastel@lemmy.ml 2026-06-29 11:20

  I use niri, I don’t know if it’s ressource demanding or not but the readme seems to say it works fine on old computers: Performance: while I run niri on beefy machines, I try to stay conscious of performance. I’ve seen someone use it fine on an Eee PC 900 from 2008, of all things. Regarding eye candy it’s also very sober by default, it can do animations, blur and transparency but you have to ask for it in conf. It looks like a window manager for the younger generation. I use it because It’s a nice middle ground between traditionnal wms and tiling ones. No messy stacking windows, no need to think too much about the layout, plus you get a larger screen than everyone at no cost :) with the caveat that it’s lighter because it does less stuff for you by default There are very nice looking things like noctalia or dankmaterialshell that can take care of everything for you (dms in particular), including bar/dock/niri conf/wifi etc. It’s much easier to have something functional and nice looking than before (including with other wms like sway).

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