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I'm currently using Fedora KDE Plasma, but I'd like to try out a tiling window manager. What would you all reccomend? I use my computer for school, so I would like it to be stable.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hm, the compositor stuff just works

The packages also dont interfere with others, probably? So on Fedora, just add the COPR and try them

COSMIC is extremely stable. I had a single crash or something, and that was a while ago. It is mainly just lacking features, but that is likely already at least as good as most Window Managers like Sway, that are extremely barebones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see someone every now and again on [email protected] asking about random Cosmic bugs, which is why I'm hesitant to recommend it to someone green.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thats very understandable. Meanwhile I think no beginners use Sway etc.