Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On 2025-06-06, Chris Narkiewicz <hello@ezaquarii.com> wrote:

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> writes:

So, what Desktop Environment/Window Manager do you use, and why?

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i3
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Also, what do you think your choice of environment has to offer that
isn't found, or rarely found in others?

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I'm after radical (within boundaries of sanity) simplicity.
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I myself use FVWM and have so for years now.

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I can sympathize. I used FVWM long (20-ish years?) time ago, with theme
called Crystal. It was rage at that time.
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I was juggling WindowMaker, Fluxbox and KDE. It was fun.
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But eventually I settled with i3.
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I feel with tiling window managers that I'm missing something.  They
seem to be all the rage, especially in some YouTube circles, but I tried
one briefly and found it wasn't for me.  However, I use emacs a lot at
work, and its essentially like a tiling window manager, with frames and
splitting the screen.

Was there an 'ah ha!' moment, where you just 'got it?'