I used to always bounce back and forth between Gnome, Plasma, Sway and Hyprland.
I love tiling compositors, but I also love having a fully functional desktop without stitching together two dozen different tools and configuring each separately. I got better things to do than edit text files for days.

And I think I found my holy grail: niri with Dank Material Shell.
DMS really is something else. A fully-fledged DE that sits on top of a tiling wayland compositor, with a workflow similar to Gnome and GUI customization options similar to Plasma.

I realize I’m shilling hard here, but I don’t even know the guy who made it. I’m just genuinely floored by the project’s quality.

https://danklinux.com/docs/

  • lewiks@lemmy.world
    4·
    7 days ago

    Niri is awesome, but I cannot stand DMS with how often it completely changes the base setup and breaks my configs. The generated json dotfiles are also a mess, impossible to work with outside of their GUI. My friend tried it and switched to Noctalia, and he’s much happier. I’m probably just going back to Waybar or something simpler, but that’s just personal preference

    • wendigolibre@lemmy.zip
      0·
      7 days ago

      I followed the same path as OP and your friend in the last week. I settled with Niri and Noctalia and am very happy.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
      93·
      7 days ago

      I don’t know what that is or how to check it, and frankly I don’t care that much if they’re using AI.
      I didn’t notice any bugs so far and I’m not relying on it for mission-critical work.
      If I boycotted everything that’s made with AI help, I’d have to go back to Slackware.

      • Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml
        9·
        7 days ago

        You probably couldn’t boycott everything made with LLMs even if you went back to slackware. Firefox devs use it too (and for the love of god, no one attack the dev for it).

        I don’t like it, consider it a liability, mentioned it to those who might care. I do appreciate your post nonetheless, not my cup of tea as an environment but I still liked the post.

    • SecondComingOfPheusie@programming.dev
      1·
      7 days ago

      Thank you for bringing this up! But, while you’ve clearly pointed out where to look at, it wasn’t quite enough for me to understand what exact content gave it away. Was it

      • short/brief .gitignore?
      • /target?
      • /result?
      • Any combination of the above?

      I desire to learn this in the hopes of improving my vibe-code radar.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    The heretic rejects the truth of KDE Plasma! Burn them!

    With the sarcasm now out of my system, I will definitely give this a try. Thank you for the tip. The tiling feature in COSMIC is amazing, but the rest of the environment is still rough. I would love to see more like that.

  • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    That looks pretty nice! Next time I play around, I’ll have to try that. I’ve got Cinnamon dialed in pretty well at the moment on my main desktop. And I finally got LXQt, Openbox, and Picom to a state I’m happy with on my turd of a laptop. Can you put the panel on the bottom?

  • glitching@lemmy.ml
    2·
    7 days ago

    this is an insanely professional-looking project, the (potential) vibed-ness notwithstanding. sadly, unless there’s some post describing what for and how claude & friends is used, not even thinking of touching that.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
      2·
      7 days ago

      It uses 1.2GB of RAM compared to 800MB for niri without dms, and idles at 5% CPU load.
      I run it on an 8-year-old Thinkpad E480 with an i5-8250U and 16GB RAM.

  • Bhaelfur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    I’ll have to check this out! I’ve had an itch to use labwc but didn’t look forward to configuring everything.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
      4·
      8 days ago

      yazi
      Because it’s easy to configure an “open with…” dialog with multiple options per mime type.
      I often want to open image files with gimp, but don’t want it to be my default image viewer.