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That's a common argument which is essentially, "I grew up and needed to be productive so that's why I don't use tiling window managers." It's ironic and silly

by hn1337 4y ago

That's a common argument which is essentially, "I grew up and needed to be productive so that's why I don't use tiling window managers." It's ironic and silly because I use a tiling window manager to _be_ productive. I have used the same settings, window manager and configuration since 2006. That is exactly why I love it, it's stable as can be and I can rely on it forever (at least until X11 doesn't work anymore, but I will probably be dead by then).

forgotpwd16 4y ago
Which window manager? I think only ratpoison, larswm, and Ion existed back then? As for X11, recently changes were added to Xwayland's rootfull mode to allow running a full X environment on Wayland.
- hn1337 4y ago
  I use dwm, in particular a Debian netinstall with no desktop environment. Simply install X and dwm. I have my own fork of dwm with my customizations on a separate branch. I can update dwm by pulling master and rebasing my branch on master. Has worked since 2006. With that being said, dwm hasn't changed much since 2006.
  - Fnoord 4y ago
    There's configs which make Sway behave (more) like dwm. Sway is config-compatible with i3, so that makes it a good successor as a tiling window manager.
    - hn1337 4y ago
- scbrg 4y ago
  Both dwm and wmii existed in 2006.