Guide: How to get Niri working on FreeBSD 14-15 :D
Niri is currently, easily, the best wayland WM. It was sad because of a lot of Linuxisms really it didn't work on FreeBSD. I managed to create a patch fixing those issues. Have been on Niri for more than a month now, it actually has been more stable for me than Hyprland, and I am using Nvidia. Games works fine, both linux (steam, insurgency, hearts of iron 4, etc) and wine-proton (Empire Earth) games. Terminal performs fine, renders smoothy, haven't found any regression or slowdown at all!
You can try Niri on today using this repo. You'd find detailed instructions there! Do give me a star if you found it helpful.
The repo has bit nvidia bias as I use nvidia, but more likely than not should work on AMD gpus too.
u/North_Promise_9835 — 3 days ago