Hey everyone, I hope this post would get people interested in sharing their Asahi fedora experience.

I’ve been fiddling around lately with Asahi Linux ,installing and testing every version (KDE, GNOME…).

I’m interested in the minimalist software philosophy so I recently Installed the Gnome version (since it comes with xorg by default) and managed to get dwm window manager working on it.

Unfortunately I’m left with a lot of Gnome packages that I don’t care about. So I installed the minimal version along with xorg packages to start dwm. However, I’m having difficulties to start and configure the server…

So my question is: did anyone achieve what I’m trying to do? And if so what difficulties did you face? Also do you prefer running a desktop environment or a wm on wayland/Xwayland or xorg and why?

  • ducking_donuts
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    10 months ago

    In order to get the best support on Asahi, you’d want to stick with Wayland: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110354541574112092

    I’m not sure I follow your logic about minimalist philosophy and how you ended up with Xorg after that, seems you’ve made some assumptions along the way that don’t necessarily stand.

    If you are looking for a lightweight Wayland compositor, sway is one option. You can have it installed alongside gnome or KDE and switch when starting the graphical session.

    When it comes to cleaning up the system, you don’t have to reinstall everything, deleting gnome packages should work equally well.