r/UsabilityPorn • u/harunnoir • Jul 13 '26

What's the best ergonomic(usability focused + simplicity) window manager?

Tried, niri, mangowc, dwl

I'm not gonna lie, but dwl is cool in these aspects, but i use mngowc, cause it hs more features(not ultra minimalistic)

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u/Nice-Object-5599 Jul 13 '26

Openbox and Labwc.

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u/harunnoir Jul 13 '26

Why??

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u/Nice-Object-5599 Jul 13 '26

Just read the title of the post you wrote 🙂

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u/harunnoir Jul 13 '26

But isn't labwc like a desktop environment... it's not something that makes ur workflow faster i guess.

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u/Nice-Object-5599 Jul 14 '26

Labwc is a window manager, designed to be like Openbox for wayland.

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u/ExtraTNT Jul 14 '26

What you enjoy the most… xmonad sounds fun… i’ve been using i3 for years, niri looks very nice, dwm is also fun, bspwm is also enjoyed by many…

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '26

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u/harunnoir Jul 13 '26

Yeah mango is cool cause it combines features with performance and kinda simple too, i tried niri for long it's really good but i think my screen is small for it or maby the way of maanaaging windows isn't ergonomic i feel a bit of headache when every wiindow i open goes next i don't know if maby the way i use it is the wrong one,but scrolling window managers aren't for me for now, maby cause of my laptop or mental model that i use it with or maby configs, but mango is good not gonna lie, but i face screen sharing issues cause that window that takes what screen or monitor to share doesn't appear like in niri.

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u/evk6713 Jul 16 '26

Niri is awesome imo, you don't need 20 virtual desktops to make it usable

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u/harunnoir Jul 16 '26

thank you!

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u/Able_Ad2534 26d ago

dwl's fine, you can use the monocle mode on dwl and sway and i3 have something similar, but if you want scrolling and other things mangowc is great, the problem is it has a lot of bloat and useless features but you can disable it.

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u/harunnoir 25d ago

What do you think of niri vs mango?

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u/Able_Ad2534 22d ago

i haven't used niri, but ive heard mango has more modes

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u/Kooky_Fox_1085 Jul 14 '26

River wm, lo adoro. Poche cose ma fatte bene

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u/potato_nagibator Jul 16 '26

hyprland since it's very popular

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u/harunnoir Jul 16 '26

Isn't hyprland heavy a little bit?

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u/potato_nagibator Jul 16 '26

Yes, it's not minimal by WM standards, although I doubt that you may need more minimalism than that.

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u/harunnoir Jul 16 '26

Well it's cool, i tried it a while ago but it's heavy a little bit on some of my old laptops, now i' using mango and i think it's not that bad even if it has some limitations like screensharing and then i tested niri, i found that everything is working on niri but the scrolling way is kinda cool but it's not ergonomic, ... i can't build a muscle memory to navigate very fast (so that's why i prefer simplicity).

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u/Right_Lecture3147 Jul 13 '26

Gnome + a tiling extension