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.
Would it work on BSD?
Maybe. Its only hard dependency is quickshell, which seems to be available for FreeBSD: https://github.com/charlesrocket/quickshell/tree/fbsd
It doesn’t depend on systemd.
But I’d be very surprised if it works as intended out of the box without some fiddling.
In any case, you’d have to install it manually. The provided scripts are only for Linux.