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Will be doing a fresh install on an old laptop in the near future and was considering trying wayland.

Can you recommend a decent & light window manager & terminal emulator?

I've played around with wayland but always ended up back on xorg, was gonna give it another shot.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I use hyprland and kitty on my modern desktop and my 12 year old i3 laptop.

If you want to have a really minimal Wayland compositor take a look at dwl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks, will give dwl a spin as I've been quite comfortable on dwm.