IDK what y’all are on about. KDE + Khronkite uses very little RAM. There are a few background things you can disable if you don’t need them to make it even leaner.
It also just works, with so many integrations, all maintained for you.
My brief foray into discrete WMs like Sway was nostop “oh, it doesn’t have a WiFi manager? Oh, no sharing? Oh, no…” and I ended up having to install a bunch of stuff manually, manually configure it all, tie them together with some scripts and services that break with updates, and find out I did a no-so-great job because I haven’t spent literally thousands of man hours in integration and ended up using a lot of extra disk space and RAM anyway!
The one thing I have to make leaner on every clean Plasma install is KSearch or what it’s called. searching for programs is WAY slow with all the search functionality enabled
Yes, for window managers, it’s worth finding a good strongly opinionated distro or script to start with, so you don’t have to hunt down and configure a dozen tools.
IDK what y’all are on about. KDE + Khronkite uses very little RAM. There are a few background things you can disable if you don’t need them to make it even leaner.
It also just works, with so many integrations, all maintained for you.
My brief foray into discrete WMs like Sway was nostop “oh, it doesn’t have a WiFi manager? Oh, no sharing? Oh, no…” and I ended up having to install a bunch of stuff manually, manually configure it all, tie them together with some scripts and services that break with updates, and find out I did a no-so-great job because I haven’t spent literally thousands of man hours in integration and ended up using a lot of extra disk space and RAM anyway!
Breathes.
So yeah. Big DEs are nice. And lean, mostly.
The one thing I have to make leaner on every clean Plasma install is KSearch or what it’s called. searching for programs is WAY slow with all the search functionality enabled
Oh I wasn’t aware I can configure what kinds of things it searches for. now it’s almost instant. thanks for the tip!
Yes, for window managers, it’s worth finding a good strongly opinionated distro or script to start with, so you don’t have to hunt down and configure a dozen tools.
ML4W, Dank Linux, Zirconium, Omarchy come to mind
Brodie Robertson just made a video about Niri.
So I tried out Noctalia shell.
I just love it. Beautiful, responsive, enough settings in the GUI. I think it’s a keeper.
I went Windows > Xfce > Plasma > Gnome
What distro are you running Niri and Noctalia on? Did you find it easy to install?
I use EndeavourOS. Both are in the AUR, so it was really simple. (obligatory mention of the greatness of Arch Wiki)
The hardest part was figuring out how to get Waybar to disappear. It was showing below the Noctalia menubar.
baloointensifies 👀