Niri + Noctalia on my diehard Lenovo 440S. Colour scheme is Nord. Fun fact, in my install, I don’t have a graphical login screen and instead, I boot into CLI, login at CLI, and then call up Niri. Does not affect performance, I can suspend my computer, and I’m not sure if it is a bug, but after a couple of hours of the computer being suspended, it lights up and hibernates itself. I’m not going to try fix it, I think its cool.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m also on Niri Noctalia combo, and loving it. I also login on a TTY, no need for a graphical login. Seems like a waste of resources to keep that process running when I won’t see it for the majority of the uptime.

    I’m very curious to know what will be new in version 5 that they are working so hard on now that they abandoned almost all 4.x development.

    • nicgentile@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Same thing. I did not setup intending to login on a terminal, it happened by accident, then I looked at my resource consumption and I was knew this was my new mode. Nice, clean, in the background, and it just works. If you are resource limited, look into Earlyoom. Makes a world of difference in this economy. Looking forward to v5 as well.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Earlyoom

        Interesting! Good to know that it exists once I run into the issue where 64 GB DDR5 will count as too little. 😅

    • brandon@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      To expand on the other reply a bit, niri and sway do just the window management. So if you want things like notifications, media keys, panels, docks, bluetooth/wifi widgets, screenlocking, wallpapers, etc, you need to provide those separately.

      Traditionally, those would be separate utilities, but Noctalia provides most of what you’d need in one package. Pretty convenient.