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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Best App Launcher on Linux (lemmy.ml)

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Looking for a good app launcher for Linux. Currently looking for something for Arch and I see there's a lot of options liks rofi and wofi. What are your favourite app launchers and why?

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[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world -5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So you're using Hyprland WM.... I'm assuming to have a minimalistic Window Manager..... But you want an app launcher.

No offense, but FFS just use a DE at that point. You're just creating a DE with extra steps. KDE is nice and fairly lightweight.

[–] red@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

makes no sense, app launcher+ window manager is still wayy more minimalistic than de

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

no, the point of Window managers is not to be minimalistic

[–] jmf@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Plasma has such a good tiling window manager now as well, with one of the most low resource draw frameworks powering it. But it isn't cool and hip I guess!

[–] red@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

how did you get tiling working in plasma? bismuth broke after plasma 6 the other ones are also really bad

[–] jmf@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tiling is built into plasma after late versions of 5. You can hit super+T to change default layout, shift+drag window to snap to layout, and set custom keybinds for keybord navigation. There might be default settings but I set mine to mimic i3 of the bat so I couldnt tell you what they are…

[–] red@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

that's not even close to being as good as auto tiling in wm's

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

its really bad compared to real tiling

[–] hunting0809@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Plasma ships with a tiling wm? I thought it was done using extensions like bismuth.

[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

no, it doesn't

[–] jmf@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

They added native tiling a while back! I am running debian 12 with plasma 5.27 and it is super comfortable.