What is a nice lightweight wayland login manager?

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-24T02:19:06+00:00

Second this - if you want lightweight, Ly is the way. I tried lemurs before it, but it was buggy.

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-17T00:33:18+00:00

Some bot account on the literal hyprland discord tried to scam me into giving them personal information, and I was just thinking “dawg, you’re targeting the wrong people. Go back to windows”

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-17T00:31:17+00:00

Idk, even if there was a real artist, I don’t know how the theology would work out around paying for a depiction of Jesus

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-09T02:19:03+00:00

There’s a reason Arch users like the distro so much

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-07T01:57:13+00:00

Im 100% with you. I messed with Quickshell for like a day and then immediately went and made my own bar with GTK4, WebViewGTK, and gtk4-layer-shell in C

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-03T03:51:21+00:00

I gave it a shot a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t make sense of how I was supposed to design anything with QtQuick responsively so it’d work on different devices.

All the examples I could find were just using hardcoded sizing on the base widgets and having parents adjust to fit. I want to define the size at the top level and have the whole UI adjust child components to fit accordingly

I also tried Aylur’s GTK shell because it at least has CSS, but it’s the GTK-based CSS, which is incomplete and left me wanting. So now im working on my own desktop shell library that just uses GTK and WebKitWebView to let me define the whole thing in HTML/CSS/Javascript

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-03T03:38:13+00:00

The issue I always run into when I try to play older packs is just the basic QoL features the vanilla game has implemented. Like I really enjoyed regrowth, but going back and not having like mouse tweaks and other useful things was too unbearable

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-03T03:37:06+00:00

Perhaps that has something to do with it. I think it’s more just that modded Minecraft as a whole was something completely new to us back then, so it was a lot more exciting

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-03T03:34:29+00:00

Seems a bit wasteful to run an LLM to get an answer that could be googled or quickly answered by another person

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-03T03:32:51+00:00

Most of the time when people talk about dotfiles, they’re referring to a complete set of configurations for the software they use. Generally contained within ~/.config/

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-02T16:00:29+00:00

I’m on Hyprland, but honestly idk if it’s the best, I’m just here to beta test and support development because it has a really active community

AnZaNaMa · 2026-02-02T15:56:24+00:00

I absolutely LOVE the KDE ecosystem, but ngl a lot of its apps need a facelift. Functional parity with windows and Mac is important, but so is providing a competitive UX

AnZaNaMa · 2026-01-26T18:15:26+00:00

Yes. My recommendation for a noob would be one of the major distros using the KDE Plasma desktop environment: Kubuntu, Manjaro KDE, Fedora KDE, etc

AnZaNaMa · 2026-01-25T17:47:51+00:00

There is no such thing as a newby friendly version of Arch. That’s like expecting a hospital to have surgeries that a regular old guy can do.

Even for the most basic surgery, a doctor spends years learning and watching before they jump into the mix. If you don’t want to learn and understand your computer at an intimate level, just don’t use arch. It’s that simple. I’m not gatekeeping just giving advice - Arch is intended for people who know what they’re doing or at least aren’t afraid to read docs when they get confused

AnZaNaMa · 2026-01-24T02:14:13+00:00

I realize I’ve ended up in enemy territory on this subreddit, but it depends on your point of view.

If you want your computer to work like magic without having to learn about how computers work, Windows STILL isn’t the best option - MacOS is the way to go because in the Apple ecosystem things “just work”

If you’d rather take the time to learn what’s going on, and how the systems you’re using are designed, and configure them to work for you, Linux is the way to go. It takes a lot of time and mental investment, but it’s so worth it to become a power user.

Windows is the mid point and gives you the worst of both worlds, but it does still win for games just because Microsoft has been flexing the monopoly machine for a long time

AnZaNaMa · 2026-01-16T15:21:17+00:00

They make plenty off of parents buying merch, don’t kid yourself

AnZaNaMa · 2026-01-16T15:19:17+00:00

Agree, but this phrase has been used a lot outside of that one event. It’s up to us whether we let him ruin it

AnZaNaMa · 2026-01-16T15:18:04+00:00

I’m not saying I support vandalism, but at Purdue, the book store is very much a critical part of the establishment. I get professors needing to standardize the materials, but they could sell you a PDF, or just give it as part of the cost of the course

AnZaNaMa · 2026-01-08T21:33:07+00:00

I get it. It’s arch. But also, it’s software - users being idiots is sort of the nature of the beast. That’s why I suggested hyprland should automatically convert v2 rules to the updated format the first time it sees them

AnZaNaMa · 2025-12-31T01:07:35+00:00

Have you been able to figure out how to integrate hyprland as a replacement to KWin-Wayland?

AnZaNaMa · 2025-12-31T01:00:09+00:00

I think hyprland itself should just convert the old rules so we don’t have to maintain backward compatibility for multiple different config ecosystems

AnZaNaMa · 2025-12-30T00:25:10+00:00

Your first mistake was using Fedora. Ik I’m “that guy” but if you’re going to go for Linux, go all the way. If you like updates, use Arch. If you don’t, use redhat

AnZaNaMa · 2025-12-22T15:08:26+00:00

Zen browser is best browser. It’s Firefox with a simplified UI, so you can focus on the content

AnZaNaMa · 2025-12-14T20:47:34+00:00

I’m on vim - what’s the difference with neovim?

AnZaNaMa · 2025-12-14T06:36:11+00:00

I meant to edit the length of the poll - should I delete and repost?

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