I tried i3 and now just wondering, which WM I can pick and why, because of their great diversity. Any advices?
Sway is based on i3, but it uses Wayland. If you liked i3, give that a try.
I personally use and recommend Sway.
If you are the kind of person who cares about the culture around the software that you use, avoid hyprland. It's creator is antilgbt and their discord server is pretty toxic. I also happen to think their documentation sucks.
You can join the discord and check it for yourself. Been on it since December 2023 but never once saw one toxic comment. Also don't know since when but the discord has no off topic conversation. The discord screenshots in drews blog were 2-3 years ago.
Hyprland already has explicit sync enabled unlike sway. Sway is good too but at that pount I'd just be using i3 which is more stable.
Try Niri (a linear window manager), I have tried it already for a short time on a seperate computer. It is very good! I just not got around configuring it for my main machine, yet.
And I need to test how well Xwayland works, because I need it for Steam and some games.
I've been enjoying niri a lot as well, it's one of few scrollable tiling managers. Check out their gif to get a sense of what that's like.
I went back to xmonad from Sway a while back when I realized color management wasn’t coming to Wayland any time soon.
AwesomeWM if you do NOT want to tinker, it has a sane and well explained default config.
just pick one don't overwhelm yourself with choices. testing out different software is part of the experience just be prepared for possible migration. currently I'm using hyprland and I'm happy with it but for Xorg/X11 i3 is a fine choice.
Try different ones out! If you have the time at least.
Otherwise, I'd personally suggest trying out some of the more active Wayland WMs, such as Hyprland or Niri, and of course, sway which is i3 but for wayland! :)
I suggest Wayland because X11 is being dropped everywhere, so it isn't too wise to get used to an X11 WM, if you're going out of your way to learn something new in the first place 🙂🤷♂️
Whatever you do, steer clear of Plasma Wayland right now. Polonium has a lot of issues.
