I am potentially going to be able to put Linux on my work PC soon, have been using it on my personal PC and laptop quite happily with hyprland ontop of NixOS
Thinking of using NixOS for my work machine as well, however I don’t want to use hyprland or even Wayland as I need this machine to be stable and reliable (Nvidia GPU)
Is I3 still the best option for this or are there better alternatives? (leaning towards I3 ontop of KDE)
I’m also somewhat tempted to just go GNOME with the forge extension as it seems the most reliable, though the tiling on that extension is far from perfect
For X11, BSPWM was my daily driver. (before I switched to Sway, then Hyprland)
You should check out XMonad. It’s the only formally verified tiling WM.
I got it working with NixOS and have my whole config online.
https://github.com/harryprayiv/nix-config/blob/intelTower/home/programs/xmonad/config.hs
I did some weird stuff with a custom Hue CLI Module for my lab. It’s a fun little, fairly kludgey example of something you could spin up super easily.
In Haskell (much of the time), they say if it compiles it ships! It’s a lazily-evaluated language which lends itself well to a config and it slots right into NixOS quite well since Nix is also a lazily evaluated purely functional language.
Ooh that is amazing thank you for the config will help me get started with it
Though I didn’t end up getting on with qtile using python for config, I tend to prefer configs being dumb text files
What do you mean by formally verified?
https://infosec.pub/comment/5743487
I linked a definition to that a few comments down.
I also run a community on XMonad: https://infosec.pub/c/xmonad
Upopular opinion: Herbstluftwm.
Try out LeftWM ! It’s a dynamic tiling window manager, and it’s a reamly cool project with a very nice community. It’s still a bit rough around the edges but it’s worth trying considering how much options it offers.
Unfortunately for this use case rough around the edges won’t do. If something doesn’t work instantly I get blamed for using nonstandard software so the most reliable is what I’m looking for really
For personal use I have no problem with rough around the edges (evidenced by my using hyprland on Nvidia lol)
