Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

I'm actually more interested in the Niri "A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor". It never occurred to me that a valid desktop/windowing paradigm would be one with an infinite horizontal strip. Not sure if I want it, but it's pretty unique.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri?tab=readme-ov-file

I've switched from wmii (old suckless tiling wm) to niri a couple of months ago and I've been happier with it than with sway/i3 -- give it a shot :)

Is it similar to the Gnome plugin PaperWM?

Yes, Niri is inspired by PaperWM afaik.

Scrollable-tiling is the best. Especially if you have two wide monitors side by side.

i used to do something like that with i3. binding meta+tab to go to the next workplace and some combos to move the windows with the same base.

then i realized that it is basically just want i did with compiz or kwin and moved back lol

Think of it less as an "infinite strip" (with implications of windows being lost in the mist, far away) and more as "each workspace is laid out in a strip".

Most of my workspaces have 2-5 columns, with 2-3 fitting on an ultrawide monitor at once.[1]

It's more like "what if tiling window manager, but with even less time spent on adjusting window sizes".

[1]: Let's agree not to talk of the insanity that contains my open browser windows. That is as near infinite as 96 GB RAM lets me have..