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Still waiting for a DE that's looks and acts like i3/sway but takes care of everything under the hood like monitor config, shortcuts for brightness, volume etc. Essentially everything Gnome or KDE does.
Apparently you can configure KWin (the WM for KDE) to act like a tiling WM. It's very customizable. Also, you can replace KWin with a TWM, such as i3. I remember doing this a long time ago, can't remember how, though.
I'm currently doing this with xfce replacing it's window manager with i3. Sadly that doesn't work on Wayland anymore because the concept of a window manager doesn't exist anymore. Your DE is a compositor now.
I think you've just described the EndeavourOS i3 installation.
But then your still using i3 + lots of custom scripts. I don't find the time anymore to maintain all this custom config. I want to switch to Wayland but I don't want to invest all that time with sway again.
The point is that you don't have to maintain any custom scripts. Everything come per-configured out of the box. You only have to tweak what you don't like. Is that any different from KDE, Gnome, XCFE or any of the "easy" DEs and their configs?
Yes, it's still X11. I want to switch to Wayland.