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Thanks for your opinion! :)
Yeah, I've searched for river a bit, but there's not much content out there.
For the start, I wanna stick to something more popular.
I think Hyprland has a bigger user base.
Sway looks a bit barebones/ old fashioned due to lack of animations.
Don't get me wrong, it certainly is "the default" and "ol' reliable", but it seems to be very limited, due to the constraint of just replacing i3.
Stuff like smooth animations, dynamic tiling, and more, sound a bit needless for many, but for me, looks and smoothness is very important.
I will try Hyprland in a VM first and then look for a pre-made uBlue-image or try installing it in Distrobox/ Nix.
I think it is Hyprland that is the outlier in being animated by default, rather than sway being especially barebones. Compared to popular WMs on X11, sway is not minimal. Compare to dwm and bspwm for example, both of which are pretty popular yet more minimal than sway.