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The word you're looking for is Desktop Environment (DE). KDE Plasma is one such DE. Distro is the underlying system.
To install any of them, search for the project and see if they have an installation guide for your distro. If not look up "how to install <DE> in Fedora."
Cosmic is already more usable than most Window managers, that literally just manage Windows.
I mean, it has apps... and GUI settings...
There is a guy called Ryan Brue that packages all the COSMIC apps. He created a SIG and in the channel there are some COSMIC Devs helping out.
There is a uBlue variant with COSMIC, working pretty great.
COSMIC just breaks KDE Apps a bit. Will have to see if some package may fix them, as they are so themable that missing packages make them use aome shitty fallback theme.
I know Cosmic is there, but it's not even in beta. I can't yet recommend it in good conscience, especially for OP, who is new enough not to know the difference between a distro and a DE.
(And if you're reading this, OP, that's nothing to be ashamed of.)
Hm, the compositor stuff just works
The packages also dont interfere with others, probably? So on Fedora, just add the COPR and try them
COSMIC is extremely stable. I had a single crash or something, and that was a while ago. It is mainly just lacking features, but that is likely already at least as good as most Window Managers like Sway, that are extremely barebones.
I see someone every now and again on [email protected] asking about random Cosmic bugs, which is why I'm hesitant to recommend it to someone green.
Thats very understandable. Meanwhile I think no beginners use Sway etc.
IIRC Sway is 100% compatible with i3 configs
Oh, nice! Might give it a try myself!
Where is dwm?