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1. anonreplier · 1791013055 · focus · HN ↗

   Niri or Umbriel with Noctalia shell is a wonderful experience, you can get similar on Mac with OmniWM. I briefly tried komorebi for windows too.

   1. Cyph0n · 1791041240 · focus · HN ↗

      Niri is amazingly good. It is pretty well polished and just makes sense.

      1. taosx · 1791042367 · focus · HN ↗

         I just wish I had a polished shell experience that was not a vram hog. Quickshell (multiple big monitors) seems to hog a lot of it, ashell and ironbar are better on resource management but require a lot of customization.

         1. chrchr · 1791047621 · focus · HN ↗

            This is Noctalia 5. It's a complete, standalone shell with no Quickshell dependency.

            1. taosx · 1791082876 · focus · HN ↗

               You are right, I didn't look too much through it and just went ahead and installed/configured it to figure out if it fits.

               The vram usage is: niri = ~163mb

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               noctalia = ~221mb ashell = ~2mb ironbar = ~10mb

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