[tetrisgm]

Simplified desktop doesn’t very clearly map to “very text oriented, barebones Linux UI“.

I was expecting something more like the ststem76 Pop OS kinda thing when I read this.

[ThatMedicIsASpy]

Niri would be a simplified desktop to me

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

[PixelForg]

I really wanted to switch to this but unfortunately it doesn't have support for Xwayland scaling :( in case youre using 4k, On Wayland only KDE and Gnome seem to have gotten this working.

[omnimus]

There is also PaperWM https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM it works pretty well. I would be using it if i didnt switch to Cosmic.

[discardedrefuse]

If you're on KDE check out Karousel. It's a KDE Kwin script that does this type of scrollable tiling right inside KDE. Works great on my ultrawide monitor.

https://store.kde.org/p/2045724

[christophilus]

Niri is my daily driver. I absolutely love it. Couldn’t switch back to any other approach to window management.

[desireco42]

Wow... love it, thanks for posting.

[anonzzzies]

Cheers, that looks nice.

[LeFantome]

I think it would be better to say “simplified desktop Linux”. The project is more about the Linux “plumbing” than about opinions about the desktop environment.

Chimera is not even out of beta and it already includes GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXQT, and others. The founder uses GNOME but Chimera users do not have to.