Comment by 7e
8 days ago
This is endemic with open source. Nobody owns the hard bugs, nobody does the systems spelunking, and there is little power to make cross-cutting changes. This is why I use a Mac. Not perfect, but better than that no-accountability midden-heap that is Linux.
Maybe AI coding agents will make the situation better, but because open source maintainers are too dim to understand the complex changes the AI makes, and too poor to have their own AIs to help them, they won't take the changes. I make improvements to open source but am forced to keep them to myself.
Except GP said it works fine with all configurations with KDE, which is what most people should be using. I've been using Linux for 15+ years and have never heard of niri.
Take this as a sign that you're out of the loop and your bubble is smaller than you thought. niri is the current hot tiling compositor, and I've switched my laptop over to it recently - away from Plasma - because it's so incredibly slick. It's gathered enough mindshare to have several desktop environments explicitly target it (Dank Material Shell, Noctalia).
In fact there's a whole new cultural wave within open source - tiling Wayland compositors, shockingly featureful DEs based on QuickShell, brand new TUI tools with no CLI or GUI equivalents, and most of it written in Rust.
>which is what most people should be using
Most people should be running hundreds of megabytes of bloat?
KDE is unuseable on the brand new i3/8gb I run purchased last year.
I mean, the desktop renders, but god forbid I'd like to run more than three firefox tabs...