• Petter1
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    2 months ago

    I have never known what the difference between DE and WM, well, I still don’t know really…

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      A DE tries to be a full operating environment, it has panels and configuration tools and (…) all as part of the package

      A WM only does window management, and other things need to be added separately. The line blurs a bit since most people who use WMs end up adding a lot of other stuff to them to the point it might as well be a DE, only it was built piecemeal.

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        2 months ago

        So there is no DE with hyperland as WM? I want something like gnome with the forge extension but not es buggy 😂

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          None that I know of. Though you can build your own operating environment centered around Hyprland. Their wiki is pretty good and their config files are nice and simple to understand. I did that for a lark a few months back.

          … The catch is that, y’know, it’s a whole afternoon spent tinkering to get it right.

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            Well that seems promising 😃 only one day seems doable 🤟🏻🤣 I’ll try to add it to my gnome arch as second option

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              YMMV of course. It took me an afternoon to get it to a point where it had the stuff I needed and was enjoyable to use.

              … f’course I didn’t stick with it, as I said in my toplevel post, turns out tiling WMs aren’t for me.