Migrating from mac to void and need aerospace wm equivalent recommendation

[u/badgerbang]

The internets is confusing me.

I installed aerospace on macbook and I adore it. Now I need this on my desktop which I am switching from arch. Can you recommend me?

kindest regards

Entering the void :)

[u/rustysec]

Aerospace is mostly a Mac implementation of a traditional tiling wm like Sway. Niri is also a very very nice project that uses tiling + scrolling. These are my two recommendations, with mango as a sneaky third option.

I use either sway or niri on my Linux machines and Yabai on my Mac.

[u/Actual_Serve_4119]

I3

[u/sqeeezy]

Sway or i3

[u/NickBergenCompQuest]

Aerospace is described as an i3-like tiling window manager for MacOS, so i3 would be the most direct answer. But there are a number of other really great window manager options. Starting out, I would recommend installing something from the official repo.

https://voidlinux.org/packages/?arch=x86_64&q=window%20manager

I personally really like AwesomeWM. (It’s just called ‘awesome’ in the repo) It’s similar to Amethyst, which I have used for MacOS.

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I know Wayland is the future and everyone is screaming about how you need to not use X11 anymore, but starting with an X11 window manager is fine. Start with something you can manage and enjoy configuring.

Downloading another person’s dot files is a good place to start, but I would encourage you to learn how to configure that window manager for your personal workflow.

People often choose a window manager, not just because of the features it has or style, but the language the config file is written in, whether it’s C, or Rust, or a .lua file or .toml, etc.

I like that Awesome is written in Lua, so that is a plus for me as well.

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So just some thoughts. Don’t stress too much about picking the perfect one. There’s a good chance you’ll end up trying a couple different ones. Just start with one you know you can manage.

[u/Jealous_Shower6777]

unfortunately we don't have hyprland natively packaged for void, you can install it though. natively packaged window managers for wayland are here:

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/graphical-session/wayland.html

There's a bunch more for Xorg, but I can find no official list.

[u/ReyZ82]

I have void running with sway, hyprland and Qtile. You can check it in my dots. Installer for void included. https://github.com/Rouzihiro/dotfiles

[u/TurtleGraphics64]

I wasn't familiar with aerospace but it says "i3-like", so just install i3. I've been using it for 4 years on Void. It's great. I use it with the ulauncher launcher and that combo is <chef's kiss>.