Niri
As a main desktop environment setup, Using as a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor on a 49" ultrawide monitor
It is a niche, tiling-focused window manager that works well for productivity on large screens but may have performance issues for gaming.
Window compositor for gaming on Linux due to keyboard input latency
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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“For XWayland apps Niri just renders at the native resolution (ignoring scaling), meaning a decent workaround is to use the Lucid/non-pgtk version”
MIXED · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-26
“I was using niri (Wayland window compositor) and this input latency was present with or without v-sync turned on”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-11
“Now that I am on Niri it is really apparent to me how much I hated juggling windows in pretty much any other window manager that I ever used”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-02
“I'm running vanilla Arch with Niri and Noctalia, and it's a dream.”
POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-31
“niri's alt+tab also has a filter where if you hold alt and then press "w", it will only show you things on your active workspace. There's a little label that pops up showing this. You can also press "o" to filter it for only 1 monitor (output) too.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-28
“Niri offers a wonderful workflow; it really is an excellent piece of software.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“niri's CLI is very easy to work with so you can build a general purpose "launch or focus" shell script in a few lines of code”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“much more stable in general, plus niri handles multiple monitors in IMO the perfect way”
POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“Soon I might be trying Niri again on a more work environment”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“The beauty of niri is that I never feel I need to close some apps because I've got "too many windows"; it's quite easy to compartmentalize”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“With niri I just open another window and it's where I need it and all other windows are still to the left and right so I just "scroll" there”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“Niri just improves on this substantially by allowing new windows to open to the right, instead of messing with the existing layout in the current workspace”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“Niri is really good. Very customizable. I do not think in terms of monitors anymore, just workspaces that are virtually infinite.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“Niri is the best window manager I ever used, it just instantly clicked with me”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“I never loved my screen and linux as much as I do since Niri.”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“Niri introduced scroll-based window management to me and it instantly clicked. I'm very happy to see a full-on Niri per-workspace emulation mode”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“Niri is so good. I've switched to using it about 5 months ago and it was legit the best computing decision I can remember making in recent history”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-25
“Managing software updates is much better on Linux. As is managing windows (via Niri in my case).”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-20
“I recommend you to test it out within a virtual machine (I recommend using cachyos niri”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-04-06
“Niri is so good. The spatialized layout really keeps me aware of where I need to go.”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-03
“sway/niri want me to tile every window into some top-level spot”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-27
“thoroughly enjoying Wayland with Niri. It is snappy, looks beautiful on my 4K monitor, and handles X11 emulation perfectly”
POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-03-20
“Feels very Niri like, in a positive way. Niri's "scrollable" interface always has room to the right & down!”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-03-17
“Running Arch Linux on it with niri and it's really nice for what it is”
POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-05
“With niri and startup apps going into default locations I don't feel like I need it at all now.”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-01
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