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My only gripe is that these newer wm's require hardware acceleration. It's hard to try them out in a VM, and committing to a hardware install is a big ask for a
by notepad0x90 9mo ago
My only gripe is that these newer wm's require hardware acceleration. It's hard to try them out in a VM, and committing to a hardware install is a big ask for anyone that's been using something else for a while.
- ahartmetz 9mo agoYou can often install packages in a live system ("try" option of installation medium). The backing storage for that is a RAM disk overlay. Did you not know or is that too short-lived for you for a proper trial?
- notepad0x90 9mo agothen you'll have to stop using your existing system. and yes, it's too short-lived, I'd want like a week of usage normally. I can see the videos and screenshot to know what it looks like, I want to see how buggy it is, and how hard it is to manage things with it.
- jlarocco 9mo agoYou don't have to remove other WMs to try a new one. Most login managers will let you choose at login.
- notepad0x90 9mo agogood point, but I still do a lot of work in VMs, that's where most of my workload is. But for my other laptop without VMs I could try that, thanks.
- xhcuvuvyc 9mo agoJust install sway and run it from a different tty
- thayne 9mo agoMany wayland compositora can run as clients of another compositor. So you can run a niri session inside of a gnome sesson for example. No need for a VM.
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- marginalia_nu 9mo agoIt's not really a commitment though. I have like six WMs installed I can switch between.