I’m currently using Fedora KDE Plasma, but I’d like to try out a tiling window manager. What would you all reccomend? I use my computer for school, so I would like it to be stable.
Distro isn’t important for tiling, just the window manager. I’d start with i3 personally, it’s been around a long time, which means the documentation is fairly plentiful.
Possibly? Though I wouldn’t recommend it. I tried that with xfce once, and it technically worked, but tiling window manager and desktop environments tend to have different aims. A desktop environment like plasma will have everything bundled together and playing well as a whole, while a window manager like i3 will be barebones and expect you to pick out the pieces yourself. DE’s are much more beginner friendly, while WM’s are great if you want to get as much customization as possible. Which will better suit you depends on your needs.
Dude I recommend you to watch a few Youtube videos about what is a desktop, a window manager and a distro ;)
No, you cant get i3 on Plasma.
No idea what distro you’re currently using but generally you can install whatever window manager/desktop (gui) you want
For a tiling wm I’d recommend hyprland. It’s not the most stable but I’ve had minimal issues with it and it’s really easy to get started with. You can install it alongside gnome/kde I believe and switch between the two on login so if you break one you’ve still got the other
You should try Fedora Sway in a Virtual Machine to see if you’d like it
In my day (today) we would create a test user, install a new WM and try it. I don’t get the “install the full distro on a VM just to try a program just a few kbs in size”…
You get the whole experience including installing your necessary software
Again, how is it different than installing directly on your machine? Especially when you have a package manager that can rollback the installation?
As a fan of both Fedora and KDE, I’d say there are better alternatives than Fedora KDE Spin.
I’m surprised no one mentioned this if you are already using kde
