Anyone switched from KDE Plasma to a WM like Hyprland?

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I used to use Gnome until Gnome 40 came along. Lately, for the most part I use Plasma . I have been playing around with COSMIC on a RPi 5 getting familiar with it before the scheduled Dec 11 release of Ver 1.0

But I couldn’t give up Dolphin and Kate. With the dev work on arm, I need my file manager to have Github support, hence Dolphin. For coding, Kate is superior to the COSMIC files.
I thought what the heck, lets include Konsole.

Now I guess I have COSMIC PLASMA. I really am starting to like this. I have the best of both Gnome and Plasma.

Pudge

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Agreed, but I mostly use Ghostty, yazi, TMUX, LazyVim with all the trimmings which is why I will probably just go back to Hyprland and ignore the mouse 99% of the time.

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It is only true if you can remember all the damn keybindings. It wasn’t the best option for me in the end lol

After all these years and all sorts of WM’s, and virtually every DE, I currently just use gnome.

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You should be able to have multiple window managers and a DE installed - just running them like applications and choosing one at start or with a scriipt. I have 6 window managers installed, and removed XFCE several years ago due to lack of use.

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I’d say konsole is better than cosmic terminal

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Back in the 90’s I had to write c++ code on a HP E55 through terminal using standard vi and gdb (no X-windows). After that I couldn’t stand IDE’s using a mouse for everything. Added debugging to neovim, TMUX in the mix and with i3, sway and Jakooit hyprland config the leader is different for all 3 but the rest of the keys are the same.

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Many moons ago, I tried i3 and didn’t like it at all. I decided that almost as soon as I had it set up. More recently, I tried Plasma’s built in tiling. I didn’t like that either so I just stick to Plasma without tiling.

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If you are not a heavy user of Vi, Vim, NeoVim, TMUX/TPM over the years you probably wouldn’t like i3, Sway, Hyprland.

Just bounced back to Hyprland from Cosmic.

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I can’t really understand how random sized constantly resizing windows are ever useful. the moment you open another window, every other window on your screen moves and resizes! how exactly are you supposed to develop any spatial/visual memory?

open a new terminal on a empty desktop - full screen. why ??!! is that any more useful?

open a browser, then a terminal, then a test editor, everything is a jumble now based on the order.

the solution tiling WMs use is

  1. put everything on its own desktop

  2. use floating windows for video player, open/save dialog etc

both of which bypass the actual window layout logic compleltely.

so the main reason for using a tiling wm is - so you can use keyboard to move between windows? because using shortcuts to open apps is supported outside a wm too. of course the other benefit is nothing is overlapping and using multiple workspaces, but my main qn is about window size and placement

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One terminal using tmux to manage multiple sessions. I don’t have multiple terminal windows just one that will have several sessions and split windows. With keystrokes I can rearrange windows on multiple desktops without having to touch a mouse. Nothing infuriates me more then to use a mouse moving shit around, resizing, highlighting something to cut-n-paste.