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Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by pmarreck » Wed, Oct 08, 2025, 11:56 AM UTC

copper4eva wrote: post #227

pmarreck wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NixOS will get you there (or anywhere, to any version, of any thing, and/or back again) just by pinning any conceivable package (and it has more than any other Linux distro) to a particular nixpkgs hash. I thought of this because it sounds like one of the reasons you're not upgrading it is fearing the risk of it fucking everything up and it being a pain to roll back (your "it ain't broke, so why fix it?" is a hallmar…

What LLM(s) do you use or recommend for nix?

I've been using Claude and Codex and both are excellent; I imagine Gemini would be too. Likely Grok as well. They're all smart enough to be helpful at this point.

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by aeon_ai » Thu, Oct 09, 2025, 12:58 PM UTC

sroerick wrote: post #214

aeon_ai wrote: post #3

I've seen Niri floating around the conversation, but still find myself drawn to Hyprland. There's something about "pagination" vs a scrollable compositor that makes things feel much more targeted and organized. I use Omarchy, btw.

> I use Omarchy, btw. I've been thinking about this comment all day trying to decide if this was an unironic "I use Arch btw" or an intentional homage, but it made me laugh a lot

Intentional homage (and tongue in cheek joke)

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by mega-tux » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 3:47 PM UTC

tacone wrote: post #221

Looks fantastic, I've been searching for something like this in the past. Is there support for stacking windows (ala i3)? Thats something currently very important to me.

Niri supports [floating windows](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Floating-Windows). I think is the same as stacking, right?

Re: Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

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Post by tacone » Fri, Oct 10, 2025, 6:37 PM UTC

mega-tux wrote: post #233

tacone wrote: post #221

Looks fantastic, I've been searching for something like this in the past. Is there support for stacking windows (ala i3)? Thats something currently very important to me.

Niri supports [floating windows]( https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/wiki/Floating-Windows ). I think is the same as stacking, right?

No, stacking in i3 (that's what I was referring to) it's vertical tabbing. I've seen that Niri supports tabbing so I guess I just have to give it a spin to see if it fits.