Hacker News Reader

Comment by nickjj | Hacker News Reader

Niri is so good. I've switched to using it about 5 months ago and it was legit the best computing decision I can remember making in recent history to move away from Windows.

I have a huge amount of gratitude towards the author of niri.

My dotfiles have always included an install script for setting everything up around command line tools, theme switching and more but it fully supports niri now too on Arch based distros https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles in case anyone is shopping around for a new desktop environment and wants to get going quickly. I run it on both my main desktop and a travel laptop.

View on HN

Same. I also find Niri paired with an ultrawide curved monitor to be particularly good.

+1, ultrawide curved monitor user, used to be on sway but the experience of niri is next level.

Yeah it is a dream on ultrawides. I was able to get a decent custom config with Qtile, but Niri is so much more natural. Being able to hit mod+c and center the current window is just so perfect on the ultrawide.

Same². I started to regret having an ultrawide, until I discovered that it was made for Niri. I never loved my screen and linux as much as I do since Niri.

Omarchy introduced a per-workspace toggle to scrollable mode like this. Press Win/Cmd + L and it switches from tiling to scrolling and back. I use it all the time now.

Yep, Hyprland recently added scrolling as a main line feature and since Omarchy is using Hyprland it can expose that feature.

I started with Hyprland when it didn't have scrolling built-in and all of the scrolling plugins were either really buggy or missing important features.

Ended up very quickly switching to niri and never looked back because I found it to be much more stable in general, plus niri handles multiple monitors in IMO the perfect way. niri is much different than Hyprland. It's not only about scrolling windows. It's how everything is put together and works together.

Please take a look at Nirimod (unaffiliated, but it's awesome.)

If it helps get folks more comfortable configuring niri I'd say it's a win, but personally I'm happy with editing niri's config file directly.

Also, my dotfiles come with a custom Walker menu to find and search through niri key binds, selecting the key bind will run the action too.

With that said, if you're using my dotfiles and want to use this tool, it would be as simple as adding "nirimod-git" to the `PACKAGES_AUR_GUI_EXTRAS` variable in your config file.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com