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Tiling Distro Suggestions (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm currently using Fedora KDE Plasma, but I'd like to try out a tiling window manager. What would you all reccomend? I use my computer for school, so I would like it to be stable.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Cosmic is already more usable than most Window managers, that literally just manage Windows.

I mean, it has apps... and GUI settings...

There is a guy called Ryan Brue that packages all the COSMIC apps. He created a SIG and in the channel there are some COSMIC Devs helping out.

There is a uBlue variant with COSMIC, working pretty great.

COSMIC just breaks KDE Apps a bit. Will have to see if some package may fix them, as they are so themable that missing packages make them use aome shitty fallback theme.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know Cosmic is there, but it's not even in beta. I can't yet recommend it in good conscience, especially for OP, who is new enough not to know the difference between a distro and a DE.

(And if you're reading this, OP, that's nothing to be ashamed of.)

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hm, the compositor stuff just works

The packages also dont interfere with others, probably? So on Fedora, just add the COPR and try them

COSMIC is extremely stable. I had a single crash or something, and that was a while ago. It is mainly just lacking features, but that is likely already at least as good as most Window Managers like Sway, that are extremely barebones.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see someone every now and again on !pop_os@lemmy.world asking about random Cosmic bugs, which is why I'm hesitant to recommend it to someone green.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Thats very understandable. Meanwhile I think no beginners use Sway etc.