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.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    7·
    2 months ago

    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·
      2 months ago

      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·
        2 months ago

        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.