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What WM or DE are you using now?
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Niri + Noctalia shell. I find the scrolling tiles to be excellent for my workflow, and the desktop shell feels nice and polished. Plus, Niri supports the Wayland
zwlr_layer_shell, which means I can finally use Wallpaper Engine; there's even a Noctalia plugin for it.Niri has been great for gaming and streaming, so be sure to check it out if you haven't.
I would be hesitant to use anything but KWin with Plasma. They were designed together as a set (like Mutter and Gnome), and I suspect replacing the WM would be no small task.
Do you mind elaborating on that Wallpaper Engine thing and also Natalia shell. What are they? I’m familiar with Niri, but never used it myself. (Not sure I like scrolling logic, I use barebones Sway.)
Noctalia is a Quickshell fork that's preconfigured. It's pretty solid, lightweight, and with the most Niri integration I've seen. Comes default in the Cachyos Niri config.