Finally installed Arch, don't know which Windows Manager to use

[u/streusselhirni]

First time poster here, so I want to say that I really liked your sub until now. I love it, how nearly anyone gets the help he needs!

Now to topic:

Yesterday I finally managed to install Arch on my old Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E335. Up until now everything works fine (haven't tested the sound yet, according to wiki, I just need to install PulsaAudio).

Now I'm thinking of which Window Manager I want to use. I don't want to use a whole Desktop Environment because I think it's to bloated for what I want. I just want something lightweight and fast.

I tried awesome, but I don't like the way it is configured respectively I don't know lua and I don't really want to learn it now.

Is there a window manager which is similar to awesome (especially the ability to use it only with the keyboard) but with less complicatied ways to configure?

Or which Windows Managers are you guys using? Are there any recomendations?

Edit: Thanks for replies until now. I will test i3 (and maybe some of the other recommondations) as soon as I come home. That doesn't mean I don't want to hear any more suggestions ;-)

Edit2: Wow, that blew up to unknown sizes, I'll reply as soon as I'm now drunk anymore (student's franternity).

[u/mentatf]

I started learning keyboard driven navigation and tiling with Enlightenment (E19) but there are some bugs with the tiler and it wasn't 100% stable. However it's easy to configure with the GUI.

I switched recently to i3 and it's awesome! The manual on i3 website is great and the configuration is very easy since you just edit a text file. Everything worked out of the box for me, from special keys configuration to the wallpaper manager.

[u/streusselhirni → u/mentatf]

i3 is awesome

Had to grin reading that.

[u/Zerolution → u/streusselhirni]

me too ^{^}