It looks great and ATM there aren't a lot of Wayland alternatives to sway if you come from minimalist window managers, but I admit I'm not that much a fan of i3 config file format, I'd love something like awesome with lua config files
This might sound silly, but is there some way to move the settings on Manjaro Sway to EndeavourOS? I really prefer Endeavour over Manjaro, but I just can't get over how damn good Manjaro Sway looks compared to just about every other community edition of Sway on every other distro, including the EndeavourOS community edition Sway :(
I have spent some time getting sway up and running with waybar on my Arch system... I like it with the esception that processor use seems unusually high, arount 10 percent vs 2 percent running dwm with x... That alone has made me lose interest...
Over the last few days I've been forcing myself to use i3 on my main machine. The first day was rough by I'm starting to get a hang of it. Using Krohnkite with KDE was helpful. It really does increase productivity.
It's analogous to learning Vim, Emacs, or Dvorak -- it's definitely harder and slower at first, but once you get comfortable with it you can be a lot more productive. Depending on your workflow, of course -- if you mostly use the mouse tiling WMs will seem cumbersome. If, however, you're doing a lot of coding, writing, or other typing, tiling WMs are amazing. You have granular control of exactly how your windows are positioned, you maximize your screen space, and most importantly it's all directly under your fingertips. The customizability is another huge part of the attraction, with the inherent simplicity of WMs compared to DEs making customizing even the smallest pieces of the software a lot easier. There's even stuff like dwm and xmonad where configuring/customizing is literally just editing the source code directly.
@@Aldrenean I do a lot of coding, and nevertheless I don't like tiling WMs a lot. I mean, as soon as I have to google something, I need to use my mouse anyways. Pretty useless imo, since you'll have to do a lot of tweaking and configuring, until things work the way you like them. I have spent hours on configuring my WMs, and never felt like actually improving my productivity by a lot. Actually it felt like I have to fix things every now and then, which decreased productivity. Most of the WMs are a lot more lightweight than an actual DE though, so that might be an advantage on lower end hardware.
I can’t agree with you more, i think spending time to configure tiling windows is overrated , i do coding a lot and i prefer something fast and simple not struggling while doing stuffs. Eventually i always end up Xfce with key vim softwares, it’s more productive to me.
@@sumoluke95 check out qutebrowser, you navigate it with vim controls. It's not like mouse-driven interfaces are bad or inefficient, but it's also objectively true that you can do certain things more efficiently and faster on a tiling WM. Some DEs implement hotkeys to do most of those things in a more traditional environment -- I know PopOS has had a tiling mode for some time.
Great vid as usual. My question: I want to switch to Wayland but I have heard it ain't stable. Is Sway integrated with wayland enough that I can switch to it and use it? Is it as stable as normal Manjaro? It is important because I'm using this computer for online lectures too.
Wayland itself is a perfectly functioning display server protocol. Sway is a Wayland compositor and the display server so if I want a literal answer, yes it is perfectly integrated into the display server since it is the display server. I recommend you read wayland.freedesktop.org/ and check the video linked above. No offense but your questions don't make sense.
Looks beautiful! But in all this wm business people is starting to build up so much to get in the end a de basically...so why not installing a de, maybe with a tiling wm if preferred...
@@TechHut Yes i know it, at the moment I'm running Plasma+I3 and the amount of similar solutions is huge nowadays and love this kind of combination, they are easy enough but very functional. Just I don't get why a pure tiling wm user should jump into a highly almost-de-featured tiling wm distro edition. I understand the fun of getting there on your own but if ieverything is already set up...boh...get a de. Cheers anyway!
That Manjaro is an abomination of an OS. All the download links went down for maintenance the first time I tried to download it. On the second attempt, I got a 404. On the third, I downloaded the net installer version and it had a dependency issue. When I finally tried the normal version, the video driver was messed up and flickering. 🤷
I am loving the fact that now you are uploading almost daily! Love your videos :)
Hey, thank you for all the amazing tips.
Your channel is great, I am learning a lot!
After watching your video, make me want to try manjaro sway. Thank you for this very informative video.
That pointer miss alignment glitch you're experiencing is pretty common with wayland in vms, usually switching resolutions fixes it.
This looks great out of the box, wow.
It's an awesome OS, thank you for covering it!!
Yessss, I had been hoping a project like this would happen.
I think it should become a community flavor of Manjaro.
Hopefully Sway will become mature enough to replace i3 soon
@@sambird7 how it replace? isnt sway running on wayland
I was looking for this thanks for posting!
Ooh nice, I'm using Manjaro with i3 right now. I'll check this out
Happy New year Brandon!
Happy new year Pranav!
It looks great and ATM there aren't a lot of Wayland alternatives to sway if you come from minimalist window managers, but I admit I'm not that much a fan of i3 config file format, I'd love something like awesome with lua config files
Great video.
What is your terminal font ?
I love it.
excited for this!
This might sound silly, but is there some way to move the settings on Manjaro Sway to EndeavourOS? I really prefer Endeavour over Manjaro, but I just can't get over how damn good Manjaro Sway looks compared to just about every other community edition of Sway on every other distro, including the EndeavourOS community edition Sway :(
all new Manjaro' Deepin 2021 version is freaking awesome ! LOL
Great video 👍 Thank you so much.
Yeah I saw this too. Very vested in this too. I use the i3 edition. A sort of alternative to i3. A similar feel
i think i'm gonna steal some stuff for my arch/sway install
Great bro,keep it up....
This is now officially available from the manjaro website. manjaro.org/download/#sway
If sway become a thing before popshell I could think about using it, but now even manjaro gnome come with it as an extension.
Interesting and nice looking WM! I see Arcolinux has it available on their repo ... hmmm :)
How is that when some application has its own shortcuts?
It's nice on my laptop,gooddd!
Hi, I have a problem with sway in my VBox, i can't see the mouse
I have spent some time getting sway up and running with waybar on my Arch system... I like it with the esception that processor use seems unusually high, arount 10 percent vs 2 percent running dwm with x... That alone has made me lose interest...
can you try to install wayfire someday from scratch on a arch or anydistrubution?
The over all look is lovely. But I just don't get these tiled wm's. Always seems like it takes away functionality that made life simple.
Over the last few days I've been forcing myself to use i3 on my main machine. The first day was rough by I'm starting to get a hang of it. Using Krohnkite with KDE was helpful. It really does increase productivity.
It's analogous to learning Vim, Emacs, or Dvorak -- it's definitely harder and slower at first, but once you get comfortable with it you can be a lot more productive. Depending on your workflow, of course -- if you mostly use the mouse tiling WMs will seem cumbersome. If, however, you're doing a lot of coding, writing, or other typing, tiling WMs are amazing. You have granular control of exactly how your windows are positioned, you maximize your screen space, and most importantly it's all directly under your fingertips.
The customizability is another huge part of the attraction, with the inherent simplicity of WMs compared to DEs making customizing even the smallest pieces of the software a lot easier. There's even stuff like dwm and xmonad where configuring/customizing is literally just editing the source code directly.
@@Aldrenean I do a lot of coding, and nevertheless I don't like tiling WMs a lot. I mean, as soon as I have to google something, I need to use my mouse anyways. Pretty useless imo, since you'll have to do a lot of tweaking and configuring, until things work the way you like them. I have spent hours on configuring my WMs, and never felt like actually improving my productivity by a lot. Actually it felt like I have to fix things every now and then, which decreased productivity.
Most of the WMs are a lot more lightweight than an actual DE though, so that might be an advantage on lower end hardware.
I can’t agree with you more, i think spending time to configure tiling windows is overrated , i do coding a lot and i prefer something fast and simple not struggling while doing stuffs. Eventually i always end up Xfce with key vim softwares, it’s more productive to me.
@@sumoluke95 check out qutebrowser, you navigate it with vim controls.
It's not like mouse-driven interfaces are bad or inefficient, but it's also objectively true that you can do certain things more efficiently and faster on a tiling WM. Some DEs implement hotkeys to do most of those things in a more traditional environment -- I know PopOS has had a tiling mode for some time.
Great vid as usual.
My question: I want to switch to Wayland but I have heard it ain't stable. Is Sway integrated with wayland enough that I can switch to it and use it? Is it as stable as normal Manjaro? It is important because I'm using this computer for online lectures too.
Wayland itself is a perfectly functioning display server protocol. Sway is a Wayland compositor and the display server so if I want a literal answer, yes it is perfectly integrated into the display server since it is the display server. I recommend you read wayland.freedesktop.org/ and check the video linked above. No offense but your questions don't make sense.
What's the top bar? Is it part of Sway?
its waybar, not part of sway core.
Looks beautiful! But in all this wm business people is starting to build up so much to get in the end a de basically...so why not installing a de, maybe with a tiling wm if preferred...
I'd checkout my Krohnkite video it's awesome. It's are window tiling features in KDE Plasma
@@TechHut Yes i know it, at the moment I'm running Plasma+I3 and the amount of similar solutions is huge nowadays and love this kind of combination, they are easy enough but very functional. Just I don't get why a pure tiling wm user should jump into a highly almost-de-featured tiling wm distro edition. I understand the fun of getting there on your own but if ieverything is already set up...boh...get a de. Cheers anyway!
yaas sway queen
How can I run it on VirualBox??
Just boot to the disk image. Link in description.
@@TechHut Oh okay
0:46 - Not a coincidence, but i move the mouse pointer in the same way you did and it freaked me out for a second. Lol
Hahahaha, now that I almost finished my sway configuration on Arch :-D
I c ya there HELPful Fellow yessss
Have you heard of Regolith Linux?
I definitely like it, great way to try out i3 if you are on Ubuntu and don't want to do all the configuring.
@@sambird7 I was amazed while hearing about this (from itsfoss Linux blog)
I think they gave up on it long ago, cannot boot it up as VM or on bare metal.
im using it to write this comment
That Manjaro is an abomination of an OS. All the download links went down for maintenance the first time I tried to download it. On the second attempt, I got a 404. On the third, I downloaded the net installer version and it had a dependency issue. When I finally tried the normal version, the video driver was messed up and flickering. 🤷
Ничего не понял, но очень интересно
Хорошо
30 years on and Linux still can't make a user-friendly operating system GUI. I'll just stick with Windows 11 which works out of the box.
Gnome??
😂😂
As far as I know, sway is NOT a fork of i3. It's built from scratch to be compatible with i3 config files, that's all.
When he said his thing was ripping other people off I assumed it was a fork. I could he wrong. 😅
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