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Wayfire VS Unity8

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Wayfire logo Wayfire

Wayland compositor with 3d effects.

Unity8 logo Unity8

Mir compositor with Wayland apps support.
  • Wayfire Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-19
  • Unity8 Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-18

Wayfire videos

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GNOME 3.36: macOS-like apps with KAWAII BLUR ..on Wayfire :p

More videos:

  • Review - Wayfire: Wayfire config manager + wf-panel
  • Review - Micro Review 2/2 Rayban Wayfire

Unity8 videos

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Unity8 Desktop Greeter Preview (Split Greeter)

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Wayfire and Unity8)

Wayfire

Unity8

Linux
71 71%
Linux
29% 29
Window Manager
75 75%
Window Manager
25% 25
Operating Systems
65 65%
Operating Systems
35% 35
Desktop Environments
64 64%
Desktop Environments
36% 36

User comments

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Social recommendations and mentions

Unity8 might be a bit more popular than Wayfire. We know about 2 links to it since March 2021 and only 2 links to Wayfire. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Wayfire mentions (2)

  • Cant change the system GTK theme/icons
    So im trying to change my GTK theme/icons (on Wayfire) I tryed changing them using LXAppearance and it "changes" in LXappearance until I close it then they goes back to default (no other application changes themes/icons). Source: over 2 years ago
  • [Wayfire] System locks up when trying to build wf-shell
    Im trying to build/install Wayfire (on Debian Testing, using Openbox) using wf-install and I cant seem to get past building wf-shell (i have also tried building using wf-shell instructions, same result),. Source: over 2 years ago

Unity8 mentions (2)

  • What happened to lomiri
    Https://lomiri.com links to https://github.com/ubports/unity8 and this repository is accessible. Source: over 1 year ago
  • Any GNOME-like DEs without all the GNOME bs?
    Unity. Yes, it's still around (now going by "unity8" and maintained and developed by UBports now instead of Canonical but it's still the same DE we all know and hate er love). Obv not my cup of tea so I'm not very knowledgeable about it so could be way off but who knows, maybe we'll get a Unity lover here and they can chime in. github. Source: almost 2 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Wayfire and Unity8, you can also consider the following products

i3 - A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.

KDE Plasma Desktop - Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE.

Arcan - Game engine and multimedia framework and display server.

Xfce - Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

Hyprland - Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks. - GitHub - vaxerski/Hyprland: Hyprland is a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on ...

UKUI - UKUI is a lightweight desktop environment based on pluggable framework for Linux and other Unix-like Distributions.

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