Here’s one who swapped out Gnome apps on the desktop for Cosmic’s. Niri does windowing though. It kind of stuck, though on the laptop I still have Gnome apps and Niri.
Cosmic seems very slow but consistent in its development. Recently it got the ability to rename folders attached to the file manager side panel, been waiting for that since the switch 😂 Apps are snappy and stable though.
My vote on this too. Had a Surface Go 1, small battery but elsewise superb. Got a 3rd gen, absolutely perfect until one day it wouldn’t charge off USB-C anymore. Sold that and returned to the 1st gen I stii had (all accessories are compatible), and it’s still serving just fine as a ‘quick errands’ machine. Both work out of the box with Arch. Battery life is good enough with TLP and extreme powersaving.
On Sway:
This goes in Sway’s config…
output HEADLESS-1 {
pos 5120,0
mode 1920x1080@20Hz
bg ~/tausta_kuva fill
}
And this alias starts wayvnc.
alias RuutuVNC='swaymsg create_output && nohup wayvnc 0.0.0.0 5900 >/dev/null &'
After that, connect the VNC client on the tablet to port 5900 on the machine and sail the mouse cursor over to it when selecting the screen to share.
There must have been a config for wayvnc somewhere, but I can’t find it. I don’t need to use this anymore after switching from a dual portrait setup to a dual LG DualUp setup, so that my screens are now pretty much square and the right way around. On the dual portrait setup, my screenshare would show up sideways in landscape :D
I have funky screen configurations too. What I’ve done is setup a headless screen that I view over VNC on a tablet and share that. On Wayland wayvnc can do this.
I’ve built a system for sharing confidential files to customers so that we get to know where they get downloaded to and alerted if something is fetched to more than one location. Had to deal with MS ‘preview’ accesses in that context. Any wild guesses what triggers my return 444 clause 😁