I kinda like the idea of Uiua.
It's extreme and meme, but the concept is really interesting.
I think our language and writing limits us, and in 30-40 years with enhanced interfaces and cognitions, we will be using things like this.
Similar to how ancient Persians used 3D handwriting to convey much more data in compact forms.
Youre looking for a lockscreen.
like people have suggested, id say the sweetest way is writing your own simple script.
For example, take a look at my lockscreen script to get a feeling of things.
your can take a screenshot of the screen and blur it and set it as background each time.
Clojure is simple, is a lisp (huge plus since they are super simple and you gain access to a whole realm of languages), and practical. You can do anything from backend to frontend dev with it, and the philosophy and community are lovely.
Scheme is less practical but easier to start with.
Haskell is the least practical but isdefinitely beautiful and helps you understand things better.
Oh that's cool.
This fixes my problem with switching to windows.
Another issue with niri is you kinda get lost in the infinite scroll. Sometimes you dont know if there are any other windows, or hundred other windows in a workspace. As opposed to sway tabs, that show you exactly how many windows tgere are, what they are, and where you are in your ws.
Something that would definitely make me fully switch to niri is if you could increntally scroll windows instead of one window at a time.
Think I can create a terminal 3 times wider than my monitor, open nvim and create ~10 splits in it and simple switch between them. Bu you just can't do that.
From the top of my head, when working on something in sway/i3 I have my browsers assigned to workspace3, my terminals to ws1, my ide to ws2 and so on. So when I open them they automatically open in those ws, and I always know where to find them. I might have ~20 windows opened across 7-9 different workspaces. I go to ws2, edit my code, see the results in ws3 in my browser, do something in the term, and repeat. I might do this in a loop a lot.
The benefit of i3 is that I know exactly where to find what and it's very simple to switch to it.
But niri doesn't have fixed workspaces and for finding windows you have to visually search for them. So the process becomes pretty cumbersome.
I've used it for a while.
It's awesome for basic stuff (checking emails, browsing, etc.), but for professional usage, it gets in the way. You can do the exact same thing with sway/i3 using tabbed windows but with much more control ans customizability, and it's a lot more efficient.
"Bomb juice"