I want to balance looks and performance.

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Sway is quite a safe bet. SwayFX if you want rounded corners, shadows, or blurring.

      • gramgan@lemmy.mldeleted by creator
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        10 months ago

        I’ve found Hyprland to be more stable and performant than Sway, but I haven’t used Sway since January. As the other commenter said, it also has more features. You could definitely turn off enough Hyprland features to get a more Sway-like experience visually.

      • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        Ah, well SwayFX doesn’t have animations. Use it if you like (I do), but Hyprland does have more features.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    3·
    10 months ago

    I’ve been using i3 for a long time. It’s extremely practical while still looking good with relatively small amount of effort, it has sane defaults IMO and it’s utterly stable. If you really want window margins, you should probably look elsewhere, though - i3-gaps works well, but it’s really annoying to update it manually every time there’s an update for i3 (I don’t think window margins are worth it, though, they just waste so much screen space). i3 also doesn’t support Wayland.

  • sanderium@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    I cross-posted to Window Managers. You can ask anything there.

    :)

    I find River to be the fastest but Sway would be the best balanced option, and most similar to Hyprland than River.

  • Limerance@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    I don’t know of any window manager that has particularly bad performance. The more visual effects you enable, the more demanding they will run.

    As far as looks go, do you want transparency, blur, animations?

    The biggest difference between window managers is how they manage windows, features, configuration, integration with desktop environments, and so on.

    That said check out dwm and Compiz Reloaded.