Yes. I just assumed it was stable since it’s there to choose from at the login screen. I really don’t use Mint, so I can’t verify how stable it is.

I see! I use Gentoo myself. I prefer to setup everything myself, but I understand that those all-in-one solutions might be of great value for others though. :)

I use niri, I don’t know if it’s ressource demanding or not but the readme seems to say it works fine on old computers: Performance: while I run niri on beefy machines, I try to stay conscious of performance. I’ve seen someone use it fine on an Eee PC 900 from 2008, of all things.

That sounds promising!

Regarding eye candy it’s also very sober by default, it can do animations, blur and transparency but you have to ask for it in conf.

That’s good! While I love eyecandy, I don’t understand why you want it with a tiling window managers, but that’s just me being old I guess.

I use it because It’s a nice middle ground between traditionnal wms and tiling ones. No messy stacking windows, no need to think too much about the layout, plus you get a larger screen than everyone at no cost :)

I can’t imagine ever using it, but it’s great that it works for you (and a lot of other people). :D

I haven’t really looked into any of the modern alternatives, but it feels like they’re a lot easier to get started with if you’re new to tiling window managers, which can be overwhelming as it is.

There are very nice looking things like noctalia or dankmaterialshell that can take care of everything for you (dms in particular), including bar/dock/niri conf/wifi etc. It’s much easier to have something functional and nice looking than before (including with other wms like sway).

You lost me here. What is noctalia, dankmaterialshell and dms? :D

And docks? Like those bouncy panel thingies in Mac OS?

I love eyecandy as well! It’s what got me interested in Linux back when Beryl was a thing. :) However. When it comes to tiling window mangers, I personally find it distracting, but I completely understand the appeal of it for others. A lot of the desktop screenshots looks really cool, but I don’t see how people can be productive with all the bling. :D

I’ve been a happy keyboard driven user for a long time now, and I can’t ever imagine going back to using the mouse for all the things. I still use it for my secondary web browser though, but that’s becasue a lot of websites sucks. :( I’m pretty sure that escaping most usage with any pointing device have saved my writsts from a lot of pain!

I would assume so. I have never seen anyone call it heavy, but I’m also not in circles where it’s being used either. It looks like a window manager for the younger generation. :)

Have you looked at Cinnamon? It’s modern and comes with a lot of features. It supports both X11 and Wayland.

I got about 20-25% better battery life when switching to Wayland with a fairly similar setup (Sway instead of i3).

If you experience performance issues, it’s most likely a bug.

Niri is one of those ‘modern’ tiling window managers, which comes with a lot of eye candy and what not. It’s probably a lot lighter than your average desktop environment, but compared to a traditional tiling window, I would consider it fairly resource heavy.

Thanks!

inotifywait in a loop? Why not something like this?

inotifywait -m -r -e create,delete,modify,move /home/.hermes/config

Mutt/Neomutt with notmuch?

That’s the downside (or upside, depending on how you look at things) of choosing a kitchen-sink distro. You get served everything and you don’t have to care or know about anything.

However. Since you seem to be more of a power-user than a casual user, perhaps you didn’t made the best choice for yourself. Perhaps building your own setup based on a bare-bones Fedora installation would have been a better fit for you? :)

My definition matches the definition given in the Collins Dictionary.

I looked it up and found this:

pre-installed computer software with an excessive number of unnecessary features and, often, unnecessarily high memory and disc space requirements

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bloatware

Is there another dictionary named Collins that you read?

I did not choose to install Akonadi. It was preinstalled in Fedora KDE.

It looks like you choose a Linux based operating system that seems to includes a fairly complete stack of the KDE suit.

(I don’t know much about Fedora)

I chose KDE for its extensive customization.

I bet that Fedora have a minimal version without a graphical stack, which would let you to only install the Plasma desktop environment and the parts of the KDE suit you find relevant for you.

And I’m sure that it’s possible to strip down a current setup with Fedora and the KDE suit as well.

Maybe I’m too old /j, but by choosing a DE I’m choosing just a DE.

That’s the issue here, you didn’t choose just a desktop environment (Plasma Desktop) you choose a, more or less, complete suit of software (KDE). :)

It’s using your data locally on your machine. If you don’t trust one of the biggest open source projects in the community, perhaps computers is not your thing. :D

And since I don’t even use most of the apps Akonadi is designed for, it is just wasting my CPU time and RAM space. That’s why I call it bloatware.

You can’t just make up your own meanings of already established words and terms. That’s simply not how the world works.

And if you don’t use it, why did you choose to install it in the first place?

I’ve been using i3 for about a decade now. Wmfs for about 5 years before that.

PS. Don’t use racist lingo please.

I went with ZigBee only devices to avoid crap like this. Matter is, for some reason, very popular and I don’t understand why, it seems shady at best.

There’s a simple solution to this issue: Delete your Google account, or even better, don’t create a Google account to begin with!

They sell computers, perhaps they just want to be a unique.

What case do you have? CPU fan? Case fans? How have you set it all up?