From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   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.   
      
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