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As a kid and a teenager I used to tinker a lot with the default UI (installing themes, icons, etc. Stuff like Litestep on windows, every linux window manager under the sun) but now I need an experience that works out of the box.

So far KDE is the closest to my needs and wants (very fast rendering, very fast dolphin, consistent UI, fast window switching and managing, the whole thing feels very snappy[0]). I just configured some shortcuts to manage windows approximately like I do in awesome-wm (tiling manager).

There are still thing that I don't like in it (configuration manager is overloaded with options and I don't always find my way through it).

I wish someone would do a regolith for KDE :).

[0] Truth be told I like the simplicity of the Gnome WM but it's way too sluggish.

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> I wish someone would do a regolith for KDE :).

Can you elaborate?

Regolith is an ubuntu based distro using i3 as a window manager and Gnome for underlying stuff (network, sound, mount daemons, etc.).

https://regolith-linux.org/

- Provides GNOME's system management features with i3's productive workflow.

- Enables new users a fast and fun way to try out a tiling window manager.

I should be able to use awesome (my favourite and only tiling manager) on top of KDE but I haven't yet found the time to do it (and I really need my machine to work, can't afford to spend an evening to know how to add a wifi widget or figure out why closing the lid doesn't put the laptop to sleep (or the opposite)).

It shouldn't take more than an hour, of course you just need to change an entry. But I fear I have heard complaints of i3 not liking the plasma panels but that was under different compositors, should work fine under compton, :D

P.S: You can use i3 as your window manager in Plasma desktop without too much hassle. You just have to tell it to allow i3 to manage windows instead of KWin

I've done this before to use i3 in KDE (although have since moved to just running i3 on its own).

You can set the KDEWM environment variable to replace kwin with something else; described here https://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Using_Other_Window_Manage...

I would guess that it will take some configuration of awesome similar to how they configure i3, to make plasma behave properly under a tiling wm, though. Maybe you could base that off the i3 config they provide in that tutorial.

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