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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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[–] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How does hyperland configuration compare to sway? Or is it exactly the same?

[–] PAPPP@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

They're both simple text formats, but Hyprland uses a "key = value" type config with section labels. Sway is largely compatible with i3 config files which are more like an unstructured script.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

I like sways configuration file more because the naming on hyprland isn't stellar. But hyprland has a config for anything I'd ever need which is awesome.