The great debate: Which #Linux desktop environment truly reigns supreme for productivity, aesthetics, or customization?
@nixCraft None of those. The real boss is Hyprland: https://hyprland.org/
Can you explain what are the advantages of Hyprland in your view? Not everyone has the same interest, so I am curious to know what are your special interests in Hyprland. Personally, I don't care so much about DEs, I just want tools for easy configuration of hardware, basic adjustements, a system tray and automatic tiling in dwm style.
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@avron @nixCraft Well, it's a tilling window manager for Wayland. Not everyone likes tilling WM, but I do. Using Wayland is, in my opinion, an advantage although it currently doesn't entirely replaces X.
After testing, I find Hyprland easy to configure and very esthetic. Obviously, because it's a tilling WM, it's designed for "power-users" and is therefore much harder to configure than any DE designed for a large public. When I say it's easy to configure, it's relative to the configuration of other tilling WM. The esthetic depends on the configuration, but I think Hyprland takes it more seriously than any other tilling WM.
After testing, I find Hyprland easy to configure and very esthetic. Obviously, because it's a tilling WM, it's designed for "power-users" and is therefore much harder to configure than any DE designed for a large public. When I say it's easy to configure, it's relative to the configuration of other tilling WM. The esthetic depends on the configuration, but I think Hyprland takes it more seriously than any other tilling WM.
Looking at https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Master-Layout/, I may like it, after getting rid of animations and transparency. With Xorg, I use MATE with dwm, MATE not to search for tools to adjust screen resolution, volume, brightness, language and things like that. I am looking for a similar solution for Wayland, when I need to use that. My esthetic is: window contents should always take the whole screen space.
@avron @nixCraft If you want a tiling WM on Wayland without animations, you should have a look at Sway. It uses the same configuration as i3. I used it before in order to move from i3 on X to Wayland without the hustle of changing my configuration. Then, after years of this i3/sway sobriety (and other tiling WM before that), I moved to Hyprland for the bling of animations and the shiny colors. Also, Hyprland feels more natural for me.
https://swaywm.org/
https://swaywm.org/