Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: KaOS dropping KDE, going ti Niri Date: 18 Feb 2026 19:15:14 GMT Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net IW2TMNRLd62RE+6K5IG0sQbRH+LNihDK2/1xxei8ncv2boaWLd Cancel-Lock: sha1:vSbyef/BHeiyKx4H1lcc4BYPajM= sha256:oEY4y+tADGcLipaPYv3X6QpDJxpulAzZGF0K2jDIiQQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:82091 On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:41:01 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > Interesting. Not KaOS but this "Niri/Noctalia" might be. Ehh, so Niri is > a compositor which I think implies window manager in Wayland and > Noctalia is a desktop shell? Might take look on an Arch system. I haven't used it but it doesn't look appealing from the video on github. https://github.com/niri-wm/niri?tab=readme-ov-file I use i3/sway with one workspace divided into 3 parts, two vertical panes on the left, one on the right. Top left is auduino_cli, bottom left is minicom, and the right is Vim. I think with Niri I would wind up with three full height side by side panels. KaOS is way down the distro list but switching users from KDE to a scrolling WM may be a heavy lift. > I'm interested since I dunno if I'm ready to go to Wayland when KDE > drops X11 support but we'll see. I had a quick try of KDE on Wayland > recently, was "mostly fine" for a quick look. But then that was just > email/browswer/terminal/Emacs and the devil's in the details, as always. > My other GUI environment runs just Awesome WM which hasn't seen a > release since 2019 so eventually that'll come to some kind of an end. I've got KDE/Wayland on two boxes with no problems for anything I do but I'm not a gamer. A few versions ago QGIS did have a popup saying some of the dialogs might act strange. I didn't encounter the problem and it was fixed in later releases. The Ubuntu/GNOME box is also Wayland with no problems. The Mint laptop is X11. There is an option at login for a Cinnamon/Wayland session that I tried once. It locked up after about 5 minutes. Cinnamon/ X11 is stable. I think part of going to a longer release cycle is to allow the developers to work on the Wayland version.