by: notepad0x90

My only gripe is that these newer wm's require hardware acceleration. It's hard to try them out in a VM, and committing to a hardware install is a big ask for anyone that's been using something else for a while.

1/30/2026, 4:50:37 AM

by: Ericson2314

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. Turns out they're wrong!

1/30/2026, 5:00:33 AM

by: conwaytwitty

Niri demo video actually looks kinda cool, could be nice to use on a laptop when there&#x27;s no access to multiple external monitors, so that you could just pop a log&#x2F;tool&#x2F;whatever window to the side without fulling swapping workspaces xmonad&#x2F;i3&#x2F;hyprland&#x2F;etc style.<p>But with 2+ screens available I&#x27;d think at least for me the usefulness would diminish, even if you&#x27;d have per monitor scrolling

1/30/2026, 6:14:32 AM

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1/30/2026, 6:38:26 AM

by: 20after4

Niri¹ is awesome. It took quite a bit of customization when I originally installed it, however, quite a few things have improved since then. I believe that niri&#x27;s out-of-the-box experience is reasonably good with the latest version. With the addition noctalia², it really feels like a complete desktop and offers the essential functionality that I&#x27;d expect from gnome or kde.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;YaLTeR&#x2F;niri" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;YaLTeR&#x2F;niri</a><p>2. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.noctalia.dev&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;installation&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.noctalia.dev&#x2F;getting-started&#x2F;installation&#x2F;</a>

1/30/2026, 5:34:02 AM

by: mikestorrent

I really miss classic X11 virtual panning desktops where I can get more real estate just by scrolling offscreen. I have a cyberdeck with a 1080x480 screen, and the vertical resolution is just too low to be able to display most dialogue boxes; if I could just have panning in Wayland it would be fantastic, as the guts are an RPi 5 and X11 is slow as molasses on there due to lack of classic 2D acceleration primitives.

1/30/2026, 4:44:57 AM

by: hurricanepootis

First time I saw the word Dank in the Big 26

1/30/2026, 5:41:24 AM

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1/30/2026, 5:27:18 AM

by: hombre_fatal

I installed NixOS on my desktop and used Sway for a while before switching to Niri.<p>With Sway, I&#x27;m constantly having to find a place to open a new window (tuck it into the current workspace or create Yet Another One). Or I&#x27;d slot it into some tabbed group and forget.<p>With Niri, I hate to admit it, but even after a month I would get lost. I would lose track of where things were not just between workspaces, but even on the same workspace: was that one claude terminal I&#x27;m looking for scrolled off to the right or left?<p>I ended up writing my own Fuzzel tools so that I could do the macOS thing where I alt-tab to apps and then alt-tilde between apps of the same kind.<p>But in the end I couldn&#x27;t make it more productive than my macOS workflow with a global hotkey iTerm2 window with 10 tabs and then just alt-tabbing + alt-tilde between apps.

1/30/2026, 5:42:44 AM