Niri

“Niri's infinite scrolling approach makes that into a rigid filmstrip sequence.”

“Look at niri - I can imagine MS and Apple will introduce scrollable wm features in the coming years.”

“The idea of windows being spawned in a scrolling list just makes so much more sense to how I work.”

“The windows are way too tall, and the induced motion of large windows on a big screen is too much.”

“ferverously dedicated people enjoying Niri, enjoying new infinite space tiling systems”

“coming from something like Niri, or even default Gnome to MacOS Tahoe is just gimping productivity tenfold”

“I use niri with the “dank material shell” desktop shell and get status bar, notifications, clock, suspend/resume, etc.”

“it feels easier for me to navigate an infinitely wide left-right and up-down space as opposed to an infinitely deep space into and out of the screen”

“This year with Fedora Atomic 44 + Niri is using 800MB, so I can give a second life to my old device from 2013.”

“What I like about Niri and hyprland is that I don't need to think about where windows open and about positioning them.”

“I run vanilla Arch with niri (Wayland), Waybar and a few other tools to create a desktop environment.”

“niri is the current hot tiling compositor, and I've switched my laptop over to it recently - away from Plasma - because it's so incredibly slick”

“Now that I am on Niri it is really apparent to me how much I hated juggling windows in pretty much any other window manager”

“even that's just sticking the graphical app window on top of the terminal window instead of the terminal window itself becoming the app window”

“having used Niri/Wayland vs. GNOME vs. Windows vs. Mac... I will never go back to a non-tiling desktop”

“The IPC is very easy to work with so you can build "launch or focus" shortcuts in a general way”

“Vs niri which by default scrolls the whole window (title bar included) off the screen, so you can't see all the windows in the workspace at a glance.”

“The beauty of niri is that I never feel I need to close some apps because I've got "too many windows"”

“where I once habitually put things in the same workspace every time and was able to trivially recall them, I now end up all over the place”

“Turns out a Russian prodigy can build something better than 100 million dollars worth of Claude tokens”

“it was giving me a headache to mentally deal with spatially mapping all of my windows”

“Workspaces for each output are independent, and switching between them only affects the focused output.”

“Niri is so much more natural. Being able to hit mod+c and center the current window is just so perfect on the ultrawide.”

“horizontal scroll unbounded by my monitor size and workspace count unbound by the number of shortcut keys”

“Niri would make me find a place to put these apps in the top level and then navigate to them which doesn't match their transient nature.”

“With niri and startup apps going into default locations I don't feel like I need it at all now.”

“I can totally say that KDE AND Gnome AND Cinnamon AND Sway AND even the immature Niri are all better experiences than macOS.”

“SWMs get rid of that friction, I just open a new window and it gets pushed to the right”

“The scrollable layout was perfect for this, I organized the windows horizontally in the exact sequence they needed to appear”

“The configuration file is sane, and not as arcane and ad hoc as the hyprland.conf format.”

“I would lose track of where things were not just between workspaces, but even on the same workspace”

“My favorite part about Niri is that a bunch of people said that writing a Wayland compositor in Rust was too hard to do for years.”

“All gestures are inertial like MacOS and to my fingers they often feel snappier and more natural than their macOS equivalents.”

“niri doesn't even need to be configured, the default configuration performs all the required tasks”

“my Wayland based window compositor (niri) starts to fail in unpredictable ways”

“It's like niri gets in an unrecoverable state that it doesn't recover from.”

“using Niri along with DankMaterialShell for configuration and launching apps lets you quickly put together a reasonably complete desktop”

“the scrolling WM solution is a really simple one that never makes you ask the question of where to put something”

“Niri has an overview view to help with this. You can see all of your workspaces and their strips, and move applications from strip to strip.”

“The big improvement is that if I have a view with my browser, editor, a terminal or two all tiled nicely”