I used to always bounce back and forth between Gnome, Plasma, Sway and Hyprland.
I love tiling compositors, but I also love having a fully functional desktop without stitching together two dozen different tools and configuring each separately. I got better things to do than edit text files for days.
And I think I found my holy grail: niri with Dank Material Shell.
DMS really is something else. A fully-fledged DE that sits on top of a tiling wayland compositor, with a workflow similar to Gnome and GUI customization options similar to Plasma.
I realize I’m shilling hard here, but I don’t even know the guy who made it. I’m just genuinely floored by the project’s quality.
how is resource consumption? how is the hardware you are running it on?
It uses 1.2GB of RAM compared to 800MB for niri without dms, and idles at 5% CPU load.
I run it on an 8-year-old Thinkpad E480 with an i5-8250U and 16GB RAM.