• Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      28 days ago

      KDE Plasma can do that, too, via a KWinscript: https://codeberg.org/anametologin/Krohnkite 🙃

      On a more serious note, this is a genuine recommendation. I’ve been using Krohnkite and similar scripts for a few years now, and they’re absolutely fine, especially since Plasma 6 introduced a native, manual tiling mechanism, which they just have to configure.
      Especially for newbies wanting to try out tiling window management, without having to figure out a minimalist environment like a bare window manager, this is a great entrypoint IMHO.

  • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    I run Plasma 6. Not because I like it but because I dislike it less than Gnome infuriates me.

    If lack of features and customizability is my biggest gripe with Gnome, crazy instability is my gripe with KDE. Plasma is fine on defaults, but once you customize (the way it’s supposed to work), KDE becomes plain unstable. The Wacom pen input settings panel is way better in KDE than Gnome. That’s the biggest reason I stay.

  • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    28 days ago

    If you don’t use Gnome or KDE or one of the other big DEs, do you basically have no (user facing GUI) programs installed by default? If so, don’t you end up installing a bunch of programs from one of those anyway?

      • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
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        28 days ago

        Most window managers come with no GUI apps. They don’t even have a launcher (start menu), status bar, notification area, wifi menu, task bar, dock, etc.

        For most window managers you pick and choose a shell, launcher, etc, to combine it with. Then you configure all those separate tools and the window manager to your liking

        There are preconfigured packages, distros, and scripts that make sensible choices for this already. Even they usually don’t bring a lot of applications with them.

        Omarchy brings a lot of applications in their default install. Check out this uninstall script to get an idea. KDEnlive is a KDE application, gnome-calculator, nautilus, gnome-diskutil, gnome-keyring are GNOME. Chromium is GTK too, I actually don’t know if LibreOffice is. So not many I would dare say. Others ship less.

        Dank Linux, a full features shell for Niri, Wayland, mangowc describes it pretty well.

        Batteries Included

        The age of assembling your desktop from dozens of separate tools and spending hours trying to make it feel cohesive is over. While traditional Wayland setups require you to hunt down, configure, and maintain a sprawling collection of utilities, Dank Linux delivers everything in one cohesive package with minimal dependencies.

        The Traditional Way: Package Hunting Simulator

        A typical Hyprland, niri, Sway, MangoWC, dwl, labwc, Miracle WM, or generic Wayland setup forces you to learn about and configure a dozen or more separate tools, such as:

        • Status Bar: waybar, eww, or custom scripts
        • Notifications: mako, swaync, or dunst
        • App Launcher: rofi, wofi, fuzzel, or tofi
        • Screen Locking: swaylock, hyprlock, or gtklock
        • Idle Management: swayidle, hypridle
        • System Tools: htop, btop, nm-applet, blueman, pavucontrol
        • Audio Control: pavucontrol, pamixer scripts
        • Brightness Control: brightnessctl with custom bindings
        • Clipboard Manager: clipman, cliphist, or wl-clipboard scripts
        • Wallpaper Management: swaybg, swww, hyprpaper, or wpaperd
        • Theming: manually configuring gtk, qt, various apps, bars, compositor gaps and colors
        • Power Management: custom scripts or additional daemons
        • Greeter: gdm, sddm, lightdm, greetd

        Each tool has its own configuration format, its own quirks, and its own dependencies. You’ll spend hours writing glue scripts, debugging integration issues, and discovering missing functionality at the worst possible moments.