Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "Linux Q/A: desktop environments (Ask Veronica)" video.

  1. Now I'm intrigued, because Hyprland is often called a WM, even though it's a Wayland compositor. Why do Wayland compositors get lumped with X-11 WMs? Also, now that I have learned the jargon, it begs the question: What are the most light weight X-11 WMs, and what are the most lightweight Wayland Compositors? Currently, on my newest HP laptop, a 10th Gen Core i-5 Intel from 2019, I have Fedora 41 installed on the internal hard drive, while I side load a PNY micro SD that has Garuda Arch installed on it. On both I use Hyprland for my Wayland compositor. I also have a HP from 2015 that I installed Debian Bookworm on it. This was after hopping around, and, considering that most distros I tried on it, and had best experience on it, were Debian based, it really made the most sense to just go with original, instead of the forked distros. Debian just works, and this seems to be the case especially with older computers that are getting to be around 10 years old, and generally have pretty small RAM in them. Even with my newer HP that's only 4 years older, it has 12 Gb RAM compared to the HP from 2015 that has 4 Gb RAM. Anyways, so far, I've found i3 to be the WM for me on the 2015 HP. It's meant to be my mobile office laptop that I might take to my parents on a quick visit between days off, or to do things at the coffee shop before or after work, depending on what shift I have. However, I find I love the workflow I have on i3. It's almost similar to what I have on Hyprland, just with less frills. It's a little more minimalist, which I like on the 2015 laptop, and it manages to keep things going better than most other environments I've tried on this laptop. There's just something about i3 that rivals for me the great experience I already get with Hyprland on the 2019 HP. I don't know. What do you think? Is i3 the best of the best X-11 WM s? Where does Hyprland fit for you in your ranks of the best Wayland compositors? Also, what happened with Weston? I tried it a few times on Fedora 40 before I upgraded. It was an interesting concept, but sadly underdeveloped. I could get a few apps to work once I figured out how to get the terminal up and try loading them from there. But it was definitely not going to work for a main environment. But it was fun to play around in. Just wish it got developed more.
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