KWin
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
6warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Aug 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“kwin is the most stable and performant it's ever been”
runs two 1440p 204Hz monitorson “XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last …”
“I don't recall experiencing any kwin crashes in the last few years.”
Caveats and dissent
“for some reason kwin_wayland's window management is very buggy.”
KDE user on X11on “XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last …”
“Just search KWin Nvidia memory leak”
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“I really miss the ability to swap out KWin for a tiling window manager”
“it took me a while to discover that it was removed from KWin”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release 2 mentions
- Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release 2 mentions
- Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM 1 mention
- Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years 1 mention
- Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager 1 mention
- Inputlag.science – Repository of knowledge about input lag in gaming 1 mention
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All comments 13
“kwin is the most stable and performant it's ever been”
“for some reason kwin_wayland's window management is very buggy.”
“Just search KWin Nvidia memory leak”
“And to make it ergonomic I scripted kwin and set some shortcuts.”
“I really miss the ability to swap out KWin for a tiling window manager”
“because I used FVWM instead of kwin”
“it took me a while to discover that it was removed from KWin”
“Some compositors like KDE Plasma KWin support a direct scanout mode”
“Even KWin's (original?) implementation of the feature wasn't great and caused issues with applications”
“I don't recall experiencing any kwin crashes in the last few years.”
“at least in major compositors such as KDE's KWin and GNOME's Mutter”
“Essentially turning kwin into a tiling WM”
“KWin's compositor causes random freezes”