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by arikrahman 19 days ago
I agree, I switched to noctalia so I get all the performance benefits without the baggage of telling people I use Dank
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farresito 19 days ago
Noctalia will soon release v5, which is a complete rewrite in C++, which makes it even more appealing if you care about the performance.
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mmgutz 19 days ago
DMS | super heavyweight | sluggish | lots of eye candy, GUI configurable

Noctalia | welterweight | fast | professional look, GUI configurable

Waybar | lightweight | fast | minimal, DIY theming, hand configured

swaybar | flyweight | blazingly fast | ultra minimalist, hand configured

Noctalia uses about 70MB more RAM, and a little more CPU than Waybar. No brainer.

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arikrahman 18 days ago
With v5 I wouldn't be surprised if they can even slim it down more than waybar. No dependency to worry about unlike waybar with gtk core.
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mmgutz 18 days ago
If you consider the extras built into noctalia: notifications, screen lock (i think), wallpaper daemon .... daemons you have to install/configure piecemeal, noctalia is already in the ballpark of a waybar-based setup.
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arikrahman 19 days ago
Yes, I'm on the beta of v5 and it works flawlessly
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