I’m currently writing this on the MATE desktop. I started with linux on the gnome 2 desktop, so it only makes sense. A long time ago I used Xmonad (a tiling window manager) but tiling has less appeal for me now. If I need/want a lightweight solution, I use CWM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwm_(window_manager), which was originally developed on OpenBSD, but is usually available across different Linux distros and BSD’s.
I’ve tried pretty much every DE/WM under the sun at this point, and would be interested to know what you use and why
sway with swaysome. Any WM that’s based on X11 causes screen tearing on my setup which turns into high CPU usage if I try to fix it via VSync or VBlank. Wayland just works.
How do you make Wayland work with X11 apps? I thinking about trying sway.
By default it has built in support for Xwayland.