[Kavelach]

I used window managers for years, but the hurdle of actually configuring stuff not-related to the WM itself (like setting up dark mode) made me switch to a full-fledged desktop environment. Thanks for mentioning Noctalia - it looks like exactly what I needed!

[christophilus]

I was in the same boat, and I ended up running this: https://danklinux.com/

It works a charm.

[fgonzag]

I was on the same boat as you. I installed noctalia after having tried and not really getting a perfect arch / niri / waybar setup.

I think I'm completely done after like 6 hours which is insanely fast, and it really is everything I ever wanted. It is cohesive, easy to style, has good defaults, includes essential programs like polkit agent and notification daemon / osd, has a ton of plugins.

I should have tried it so much sooner.

[wongogue]

There are a lot of them (like Celestia, DMS etc) and they look very good too. They are all based on QuickShell which provides the actual building blocks.

[mostlyk]

It does have it's own quirks, but it is quite nice and works out of the box. Really enjoy the sleek design.