This is Noctalia 5. It's a complete, standalone shell with no Quickshell dependency.

You are right, I didn't look too much through it and just went ahead and installed/configured it to figure out if it fits.

The vram usage is: niri = ~163mb

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noctalia = ~221mb ashell = ~2mb ironbar = ~10mb

I don't think people even read the blog post, because the blog post pretty clearly explains that Laya isn't really comparable to Jev.

I vividly remember the months after AMD64 came out when tech companies were dumping their specialty RISC server hardware (mostly Sun, but some other stuff too) and replacing them with commodity AMD boxes. It was felt like a monumental shift.