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Wayfire Review

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Wayland compositor with 3d effects.

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Pros

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ResoluteBaoshengDadi

Pro
Plugin approach

The usage of a plugin system allows for a lot of customisability.

CreativeBoann

Pro
Nice blur feature

The blur plugin makes this compositor look nice.

KindKhonsu

Pro
Fastest compositor with earth.google.com/web

Simona
py

Pro
Optional tiling

Wayfire has a basic tiling extension built in, and more advanced third party plugins like this one are available.

Cons

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Con
Cut/paste not reliable

Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But most of the time not.

Commonly Compared

Wayfire
vs
GNOME
712 Recommendations
Hyprland
4 Recommendations
Arcan
12 Recommendations
Unity8
6 Recommendations
UKUI
14 Recommendations
Android-x86
51 Recommendations
Metro
0 Recommendations
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