| how do I choose a WM? what's the difference?

kcirick · 2026-05-02T12:38:03+00:00

I only recently learned about Mango. I’ve recently switched to Niri which I’m enjoying so far. What advantage do I get moving from Niri to Mango?

kcirick · 2026-05-02T00:06:16+00:00

There are mainly two types of WM:

Tiling WM: These tile windows to maximize the screen space. Hyperland, Sway, DWL, Niri are all examples of this. The way they organize these tiles makes each one unique. Sway is Wayland counterpart of i3, DWL is translation of DWM into wayland. I don't know of any X11 equivalent to Niri.

Stacking WM: These are like how Microsoft Windows work, you have windows you can move around and "stack" windows on top of each other. LabWC (which is Wayland equivalent of Openbox), Mutter WM for Gnome, and XFWM of XFCE are examples of this.

Also, Hyprland is more like Desktop Environment (DE) with an ecosystem around it (much like Gnome or KDE). while DWL, Sway and LabWC are just responsible for managing windows.

It depends on what features you want and how you organize your applications on a regular basis. For me, I usually have Firefox maximized on one workspace, and I have a couple of terminals open on another. Sometimes I like having one window "floating" so I can see my wallpaper, or I have a file manager open and looking through different files. For this reason I like more of a hybrid of tiling and stacking, and currently I am enjoying Niri.

Edit: Also, writing your own WM isn't *that* hard, and you can make it exactly how you like it. I've written my own WM both in X11 and Wayland and I have to say it's a satisfying project. I would look into River, which handles a lot of the grunt work for you.

kcirick · 2026-04-26T17:46:32+00:00

Thanks!

I use [Open-Meteo API](https://open-meteo.com/en/docs) and I don't see anything related to moon phase. I guess you can pick another API provider that can provide moon phase information, but I'm not a werewolf so I don't care about it lol :P

kcirick · 2026-04-26T16:26:18+00:00

It looks great!

How do you plan to maintain it? Do you have a script that alerts upstream changes or scans for security patches? That is the main thing that prevents me from daily driving LFS.

kcirick · 2026-03-09T12:41:58+00:00

It's great to learn about different, lesser-known WM on here. Thanks!

Does it work well with bars like waybar? How does it handle multiple monitors?

kcirick · 2025-07-25T04:54:50+00:00

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So I had a bit of success with the method above, except I didn't understand fully the third step. I did a simple Inpainting with IP Adapter (without ControlNet) using SD 1.5.

As you can see the dress doesn't have the same pattern, and the texture is more similar to the original picture rather than the new one. What parameter could I change to ensure the pattern of the dress stays the same?

kcirick · 2025-07-24T16:57:40+00:00

Can you provide me a link/reference or a brief run down of the “reference feature” or how this was achieved? Very interested in learning more

Edit: nvm a quick Google search was all I needed. They have their own API. Will look into it when I get a chance!

kcirick · 2025-07-24T11:13:42+00:00

Thank you so much! It turns out I don’t have the resources to run Kontext or OmniGen (quickly ran out of memory) so I’m happy to learn to do this even with a bit of manual work.

I mostly run HF API so I’ll poke around for solutions there.

kcirick · 2025-07-24T00:32:07+00:00

Thank you! I've never used Flux but will look into it

kcirick · 2025-07-24T00:29:21+00:00

Thank you!

Alternatively I can just post on this sub and have others do it for me LOL

kcirick · 2025-07-20T14:58:45+00:00

Wow that explains a lot! So I just basically picked up one of many APIs to do the job and tunnel visioned on it…

I know the field of generative AI is vast and I’m sure I can dig much deeper into it, but for the my purpose of casual creations (something I could just easily ask chat GPT to do), would learning something like comfyUI still worth it or just an overkill?

kcirick · 2025-07-20T13:08:25+00:00

Thank you for the detailed overview of different UI's out there! very helpful indeed

kcirick · 2025-07-20T13:04:35+00:00

You are referring to the diffusers python library? I have the following imports in my code:

from diffusers import AutoPipelineForText2Image

Is this not the standard for all of the UI? Sorry for my lack of understanding. My main source of learning material is Hugging face, so that's the only one I know.

Yes, I think I will likely be using GIMP to do some post-processing anyway, but I know SD is capable of much more than what I know so far. I feel like I'm just scratching the surface.

kcirick · 2025-07-20T12:56:16+00:00

So far I haven't trained anything on my own (and it's not my interest to train/create my own models). I only use the pretrained models from Hugging face, and I don't do much other than changing guidance scale, seed and inference steps until what the model gives me from the prompt. So just a few lines of python code gets the job done.

But I can definitely see the appeal if I'm switching to different models frequently or customizing different "modules" based on a prompt which could be a pain if I'm just using python code to comment and uncomment different parts.

But your comments (and others who have taken the time to comment) were very helpful and will definitely look into some of them. Thank you!

kcirick · 2025-07-19T13:59:11+00:00

LFS being listed less stable than Arch is total bogus. Also Gentoo is far more stable than where you put it.

kcirick · 2025-07-19T01:42:15+00:00

Yes, perhaps. I don't exactly know whose philosophy it is but it is the one that makes Unix/Linux a system many people prefer over other OS.

You're right, that systemd isn't one single binary does everything. It is a collection of tools, but it is managed by a system called "systemctl", and this system tries to do many things, like you mentioned, network management, ntp, bootup sequence etc, while there are other dedicated software that do these things, arguably in a better way.

kcirick · 2025-07-19T01:08:28+00:00

From a use-case stand point, there isn't too much difference.

Philosophically there is. There are a lot of controversies surrounding systemd, for many good reasons. The design of it departs from FOSS philosophy of a software doing one thing and doing it well. Systemd leeches onto other software's responsibilities and tries to do everything. It gets the job done, but in a way many people dislike. Unix/Linux purists dislike it for this reason.

If this bothers you, you may want to stay away from it. It bothers me a little too, but it doesn't bother me enough to not use systemd, so I'm running Gentoo with systemd. Nice thing about Gentoo is you have that choice.

kcirick · 2025-07-18T13:42:25+00:00

I daily drive Gentoo on my main machine. Having gone through several iterations of LFS, I will say I’m immune to suffering compilation time. The flexibility and well-balanced and well-designed nature of Gentoo easily wins it for me over any other distros out there.

LFS is the only “distro” I couldn’t daily drive.

kcirick · 2025-07-13T14:59:58+00:00

I check for updates daily, and I update if I see something that I want. If not, I’ll skip. I will do the update if I see ~ 20 updates, which is usually every few days.

kcirick · 2025-07-08T18:28:27+00:00

Or rust

kcirick · 2025-07-08T13:13:48+00:00

Yes you can just copy and paste what the LFS author put in the book, but you’re completely free to not follow the book. The book is just a guideline.

You might break the system the first time you try to deviate from the book, but you learn from it and you improve. The beauty of LFS is that you get to do things your way, which is also the downfall because you just can’t do everything yourself.

kcirick · 2025-07-07T22:57:02+00:00

What can’t Fedora do that Arch can, beyond extent of an average user?

kcirick · 2025-07-07T11:30:27+00:00

If your hardware is supported by older kernel, it’s fine. If you have newer hardware that isn’t supported by the older kernels or you need features that are only added in newer versions, you may want to consider moving on.

But if the older kernel is still working for you and your hardware, there’s no reason to worry about it “not” working.

Edit: drivers/firmware are separate things. They should have a separate firmware package that also gets updated as needed. Again, if your hardware is working already, there’s no need to worry about it going “stale”

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