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Roine Bertelson เป็น Stockholm-based Tech Writer, Translator และ Digital Strategist มีประสบการณ์ Hands-on มากกว่า 20 ปีใน AI Tools, Linux, Consumer Tech, Cybersecurity และ SEO-driven Content เขาโดดเด่นในการทำให้ Complex Topics กลายเป็น Clear และ Practical Guidance ช่วย Readers แก้ Real Problems คนไว้ใจงานเขาเพราะเขา Actually Uses และ Tests Tools ที่เขาเขียน Break Things On Purpose และ Translate Chaos ของ Modern Technology ให้เป็น Advice ที่รู้สึก Human, Honest และ Useful
มี Pressure แบบเฉพาะเจาะจงที่มีอยู่แค่ใน Linux Circles ไม่ใช่แบบดัง ไม่ใช่แบบ "THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE" YouTube Thumbnail แบบ Quiet และ Dangerous แบบที่ Multiple People You Trust Casually Mention The Same Thing เหมือนมัน Already Part of the Furniture ครั้งนี้ ผมได้ยินบ่อย:
"Try Niri."
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No Pitch or Urgency Just This Calm, Slightly Smug Certainty That You'll Get There, Eventually So I Did Fired It Up on my Ubuntu 25.10 Machine, Half Expecting Another "Cool Idea, Won't Last a Week" Experiment And Here's the Annoying Part I Liked It, But Not Enough to Stay
Niri's Approach Is Genuinely Refreshing
Horizontal Flow Solves a Problem Most Window Managers Ignore
The First Few Minutes with Niri Feel … Different Not Flashy Different, or "Look at These Animations" Different More Like Someone Discreetly Rearranged Your Brain While You Weren't Looking No Grids, No Splits, และ No Constant Resizing Like You're Negotiating with Your Own Screen Real Estate Instead, Everything Lives in a Horizontal Flow One Window at a Time Move Left, Move Right, Done It Sounds Almost Too Simple And Yet, It Works
With Something Like Hyprland or i3, There's Always This Low-level Hum of Decision-making Where Should This Go? Is This Layout Still Working? Should I Just Tweak That One Thing … Again? Niri Just Cuts the Wire You Open Something, and It Appears Full Focus with No Competition No Visual Noise Elbowing Its Way into Your Attention Span For Deep Work, It's Borderline Dangerous How Effective It Is The Kind of Setup Where You Sit Down "Just to Check Something" and Suddenly an Hour Is Gone, and You've Actually Finished What You Started Which Is Rare Extremely Rare
Ubuntu 25.10 Handles Niri Without Drama
The Install Is Clean, the Experience Is Stable
Credit: Shaun Cichacki/MUO
Now, I Was Fully Prepared for This Part to Go Sideways Because New Compositor Plus Ubuntu Usually Equals "This Almost Works If You Sacrifice Your Weekend and Your Dignity" But No, Ubuntu 25.10 Actually Behaves Here The Install Is Straightforward, the Dependencies Don't Throw a Tantrum, and Wayland Doesn't Feel Like It's Held Together by Hope and a Forum Thread from 2019
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:avengemedia/danklinux sudo add-apt-repository ppa:avengemedia/dms sudo apt install niri dmsLog Out Switch Session Log Back In That's It No Dramatic "And Then Nothing Worked" Moment No Dependency Rabbit Hole No Late-night Regrets Which Almost Makes It Worse Because Now I Can't Blame the Setup If It Doesn't Click
Where It Started to Lose Me
The Same Simplicity That Helps Focus Can Limit Flexibility
This Is Where Things Get a Bit Uncomfortable Not Bad Just … Slightly Off Niri Is Fantastic When Your Workflow Is Clean, Linear, and One Task at a Time Open Something, Do the Thing, Move On But My Actual Workflow? It's a Bit Messier Than That Controlled Chaos and Organized Clutter The Digital Equivalent of Having Multiple Tabs Open in Your Brain at All Times I Like Seeing Things Side by Side A Browser Next to an Editor A Terminal Lurking Nearby Something I Can Glance At Without Having to Go Looking for It, Like I Misplaced My Own Thoughts
Niri Doesn't Do That for Me Everything Becomes Sequential One Window Then the Next Then the Next And While Navigating Is Fast, It Adds This Tiny Layer of Friction Not Enough to Break Anything, But Enough to Make Me Notice That Subtle "Wait, Where Was That Again?" Moment Creeping In Just Often Enough to Interrupt the Flow It's Trying to Create It's Minimalism Doing Its Job a Little Too Well
It Clicked … Just Not Enough to Stay
Niri Works Exactly as Intended, and That's the Point
Here's the Part That Makes This Slightly Frustrating to Admit Niri Didn't Fail Me It Didn't Crash, But It Did Annoy Me It Didn't Send Me Running Back to My Old Setup in a Fit of Rage It Stayed Consistent, Calm, and Predictable Anyone Who Knows Me Can Attest That I Like Those Qualities In Niri's Case, It Wasn't My Cup of Tea But I Can Absolutely See Why People Fall Into It Hard There's a Clarity to It A Kind of Enforced Focus That Strips Away the Nonsense No Tweaking Spiral No "Just One More Config Edit" No Endless Fiddling with Layouts Like It's a Personality Trait
There's Something Almost Offensive About How Sensible That Is
You Sit Down You Work You Leave There's Something Almost Offensive About How Sensible That Is But It's Also Rigid in a Very Specific Way Niri Isn't Trying to Adapt to You It's Saying "This Is How This Works" and Leaving It at That If That Aligns with Your Brain, You're Golden If It Doesn't, You'll Feel It
Sometimes "Not for Me" Is Still Exactly What You Needed
After a Few Days, I Caught Myself Drifting Back Not Dramatically No Uninstall Rage Just… Quietly Opening My Old Setup Again As Nothing Happened Familiar and Flexible Slightly Chaotic in a Way That Fits How I Actually Think And That's When It Really Clicked Niri Didn't Need to Win Me Over to Be Valuable It Forced Me to Question How I Work It Stripped Things Down to the Point Where I Could Actually See What Mattered and What Was Just Habit Dressed Up as Productivity
Turns Out, I Like a Bit of Controlled Chaos I Like Shaping My Workspace I Like Having Things Visible, Even If I Don't Need Them Right This Second Niri Showed Me the Alternative, As Clean, Focused, and Intentional It Just Wasn't My Default State And That's Fine, Because Sometimes the Best Linux Experiments Aren't the Ones You Keep They're the Ones That Make You Understand Why You Don't
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Niri คือ Scrollable-tiling Wayland Composer ที่เขียนหลักด้วย Rust
