So Ive been using linux for a long time and mostly with gnome. I know about window managers and how using them will reduce the memory usage by system a lot because they are less bloated etc. I want to try a window manager on my nixos machine - this will be my first time trying one, I have good knowledge in programming so technical stuff wont bother me that much. Which window manager do you suggest? Customization is my priority.
One thing that has kept me on dwm for so long is that my patched configuration no longer needs any more changes and I take it with me wherever I go. it was challenging but rewarding.
Never an upgrade needed.
I eventually want to go to Wayland. River seems nice!
Also might want to give https://codeberg.org/dwl/dwl a shot for dwm in Wayland
Not really helpful if you are on another distro but gentoo has a
savedconfigflag for the package that lets you store a permanent header file for the DWM variables in with the package manager config files. It integrates really nicely.