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What DEs are people using? (self.archlinux)
submitted 1 year ago by ABeeinSpace to c/[email protected]
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I wanted to get a feel for everyone’s thoughts on desktop environments (or window managers if you don’t use a DE). I’m new to Lemmy, so apologies if this is too low-effort a post.

Personally I’m running KDE on my main computer, but I have an Arch virtual machine I use for more experimentation. That VM has seen KDE, i3, and will probably see hyprland at some point soon

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

long time i3 user, now switched to sway

[–] ABeeinSpace 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ve seen people mention Sway every once in a while. What’s the benefit over i3 if you don’t mind me asking?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

it comes down to wayland, i3 only supports Xorg, sway only supports wayland.

as far as features goes sway was built to be pretty much a drop in replacement for i3 with a few improvements.

[–] Zenzio 1 points 1 year ago

Well, the benefit is Sway being on Wayland which is slowly but surely replacing Xorg (i3 is on Xorg). Xorg is in maintenance mode now and Wayland is being actively developed. I think Wayland can be considered the default now, since major DEs like KDE and Gnome have switched to it. One thing that gets mentioned a lot when talking about the benefits of Wayland (and therefore Sway) is better multi-monitor compatibility. So if you're running i3wm with two or more displays (running with different frame rates) you might want to switch to Sway or anything running on Wayland.