Display
Display manager
I use LightDM, which is less resource intensive than GDM. As of Oct 2020, it uses about 17MB on boot, which is drastically less than GDM would use (note that GDM also creates additional processes for its functioning).
I recommend using lightdm-gtk-greeter, which is the default greeter, unless specified otherwise. ([1]). openSUSE, Linux Mint and others may be using the slick greeter by default, so you should change it.
On openSUSE, the display manager can be set interactively using sudo update-alternatives --config default-displaymanager. (Docs).
Display server
I use X11 as it has been around for a few decades and works with most things.
The general way into tiling wms for Wayland is Sway, but Sway does not work correctly on NVIDIA. As I only have an NVIDIA card at the moment, I will not be able to try sway and Wayland.
Fonts
Fonts live at ~/.fonts
To reload the font cache, run fc-cache -fv.
Active fonts
- Source Code Pro
- Victor Mono for readyonly text
- Noto for emoji