Hello people, this is my first post on this forum.
If you didn’t guess from my avatar, I’ve been a fedora (KDE Plasma) guy. Especially because it has both the perks of stability and up-to-dateness (i made this word up)
I’ve never been a fan of WMs and didn’t get the appeal. But I’m willing to try something now 
Recently, something called “QuickShell” has been trending, and many QuickShells have already made it… DMS, Noctalia, Caelestia,…
Which WM would be the best for a beginner? I mean by beginner-friendly, it should have minimal configuration, or something that I can setup once and forget…
Regarding the QuickShell implementation, however, I want it to be feature packed and not resistive to introducing new features (coming from a KDE enthusiast). It shouldn’t be “minimal” because GNOME hurts (for me).
And finally, everything should upgrade automatically with a package manager (pacman/paru/yay)
I don’t want to do “sudo make install”
I’ve had good experiences with Hyprland (Wayland compositor) and DankMaterialShell, more recently running Noctalia (quickshells). Both are very simple to get started, update with package managers (DMS with pacman, Noctalia with yay).
As far as the quickshells I metioned go, they are not tied to one compositor; Niri, Sway, MangoWC, and a few others are all supported. Even though I used EOS to install my current system (used the “No desktop” option), I did the rest from the Arch Wiki.
Thank you for your response!
I tried looking for something on the Web, and I’m willing to go for this configuration. Is it okay?
- Install endeavourOS with the Plasma Desktop
- Install niri (i like the scrolling features) from pacman
- Install DankMaterialShell from pacman
I want to have the Plasma suite of apps, but use niri + DMS. DMS seems to be really feature-rich. If there’s something better (NOT MINIMAL), please tell me
That should work, but I personally would just install the KDE apps that I actually used regularly. I use dolphin, okular, and kdeconnect.
But do they work correctly w/o the KDE stack?
Yes. They do come with a fair amount of KDE dependencies, but none require a full KDE install.