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i3wm-ist here. Niri also didn't provide anything to me i3 didn't. It was actually more dificcult and less productive for my professional work with two monitors. But for laptop only usage it's amazing.
i3 to sway is pretty smooth. You don't have to change much and after a while you forget if youre using i3 or sway.
Multi-monitor i3 really ruins virtually any non-i3 multi-monitor, with a few exception of other tiling window managers, I think.
I heard KDE introducing something similar, but I can't imagine it being as convenient.
I'm thinking of migrating to sway on a full-AMD machine I have, but I think it had shown me some attitude a couple of times and I didn't bother further.
Aside from the best practices and safety, what can Wayland provide to me on a mostly-work machine? I know I'll miss
.Xresourcesfor the colors across multiple applications, though.I'm taking the same approach for my main work laptop. As long as X11 is working, I probably won't bother moving to wayland/sway.
What's your screen situation, by the way?
i3 is probably the only thing that I've experienced to be best at any resolution: if it's small, it's easy to hop between windows and layouts, and if it's big, it's so amazing to easily arrange everything to be in my view, even at 1080p @ 24''.
Been thinking about a 4K for a while or an ultra-wide, but I can't justify the purchase.
My laptop is 15.6 1080p, work external is 27" 2k home external is 24" 2k
Automatic switching with autorandr
my setup is honestly "on da point" after years of fine tuning.
you can see the dots
https://codeberg.org/alirezaalavi/dotfiles
Amazing work, big thanks!