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We DEFINITELY need more of them. There’s Hyprland, Qtile, River, DWL and Sway on the tiling side. There is no real alternative to BSPWM (though river uses a similar config style) or to HerbsluftWM (though I don’t know anyone that uses it, but still), or an alternative to AwesomeWM, or XMonad (though the XMonad devs are willing to pay someone to work on porting XMonad to Wayland)
There’s also Strata, Niri, and to some extent Cosmic. My problem has been that they tend to be very opinionated and limited in the customization of the layouts. Having used XMonad for a long time, I may be a bit spoiled in that regard…
I do think there’s a middle ground for configuration without requiring programming skills, which can be off-putting for many users. After all, most layouts are just a combination of rows and columns. 😛
River is great for layouts. My main issue is that some of ghese projects need furthed stability and others are still adding features, changing and breaking configs, which could make for a painful experience because of version mismatch between distros, for people like me, who constantly hop between a few distros and can’t settle on either of them because none are perfect.
We DEFINITELY need more of them. There’s Hyprland, Qtile, River, DWL and Sway on the tiling side. There is no real alternative to BSPWM (though river uses a similar config style) or to HerbsluftWM (though I don’t know anyone that uses it, but still), or an alternative to AwesomeWM, or XMonad (though the XMonad devs are willing to pay someone to work on porting XMonad to Wayland)
There’s also Strata, Niri, and to some extent Cosmic. My problem has been that they tend to be very opinionated and limited in the customization of the layouts. Having used XMonad for a long time, I may be a bit spoiled in that regard…
I do think there’s a middle ground for configuration without requiring programming skills, which can be off-putting for many users. After all, most layouts are just a combination of rows and columns. 😛
River is great for layouts. My main issue is that some of ghese projects need furthed stability and others are still adding features, changing and breaking configs, which could make for a painful experience because of version mismatch between distros, for people like me, who constantly hop between a few distros and can’t settle on either of them because none are perfect.