Very low resources but reliable Wayland Desktop? (www.omglinux.com)
from Pantherina@feddit.de to linux@lemmy.ml on 02 Dec 2023 20:14
https://feddit.de/post/6292886

When recommending people Linux Desktops for very low hardware in the past it was always stuff luke Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Puppylinux (and way more I know) etc.

Today we should not recommend X.org anymore, and Wayland is also said to be faster.

I have good experiences with KDE, but its not trimmed down in any way.

I was thinking about something like the Raspberry Pi Desktop? They use a set of regular Wayland utilities and the Desktop is probably very reliable and resource efficient.

This would be a great new ublue spin, for low resources. If their license allows it, it should be rebranded and changed to be more standard.

Do you know anything else? And no, no window managers please, had a really buggy experience on Fedora Sway.

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kpw@kbin.social on 03 Dec 2023 02:24 next collapse

Sway works well for me, what's wrong with it?

canadaduane@lemmy.ca on 03 Dec 2023 03:28 next collapse

Keep an eye on Pop COSMIC. It isn’t ready yet, but I’d give it 4 months and I think it would be a great match for something like rpi.

Pantherina@feddit.de on 03 Dec 2023 12:32 collapse

Right, pure Rust must be fast af. And it doesnt look as shitty as the rpi desktop

[deleted] on 03 Dec 2023 06:15 next collapse

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baconicsynergy@beehaw.org on 03 Dec 2023 06:48 next collapse

This was in development but its about a year stale: gitlab.com/cubocore/paper/paperde

TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works on 03 Dec 2023 11:10 next collapse

Looking for similar myself. I love cbpp, based on openbox, it’s just out of my way and lets me do my work. but I want to move to wayland, thinking kde plasma, spend for ever changing it to my liking and some how export all changes. probably a bash script first but thinking long term write it in ansible.

But i’d much perfer to find a stock/sane solution.

Pantherina@feddit.de on 03 Dec 2023 12:31 collapse

What did you change?

TerraRoot@sh.itjust.works on 03 Dec 2023 16:15 collapse

Not enough yet, made a list of apps I need, moved the dock/bar to the top of the screen. only have kde installed on my personal laptop, I don’t any where near enough time to spend on it, my desktop isn’t for playing around on.

Pantherina@feddit.de on 03 Dec 2023 19:08 collapse

So you didnt actually change any deeper KDE parts, making it more like a tiling window manager by default?

Keyboard shortcuts for

  • krunner
  • tiling
  • workspaces / desktops

All that work great. Krunner / the kde Start menu are also truly great, I cant wait for custom rearranging of entries in Plasma 6 (afaik)

Secret300@sh.itjust.works on 03 Dec 2023 11:17 next collapse

What issue’s did you have with sway? They could be a fedora issue and not a sway one.

Pantherina@feddit.de on 03 Dec 2023 12:31 collapse

Yes likely, at least in the VM the guest addition didnt work, and the mouse cursor was duplicating itself forever. Also it looked quite ugly so yeah, not a great ootb experience for sure.

linuxoveruser@lemmy.ml on 03 Dec 2023 14:27 next collapse

it sounds like rpios is using wayfire now, which is probably quite lightweight and can run on any distro

hellvolution@lemmygrad.ml on 03 Dec 2023 15:01 collapse

Low resources = Xorg with some sort of Window Maker or similar desktop!