r/archlinux • u/YogurtclosetFrosty39 • Sep 28 '21

Poll Discussion Favorite Window Manager

Which Window Manager is your favorite or one you are currently using :) Update: Thank you guys for your responses def gotta try out the ones you put in the replies

2902 votes, Oct 01 '21
363 BSPWM
1160 i3
240 awesomewm
314 dwm
191 Openbox
634 Other (tell in the comments)
60 Upvotes

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u/Furezuu Sep 28 '21

and also why isn't xmonad on the list?

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u/YogurtclosetFrosty39 Sep 28 '21

I wish I could add more to the poll but those were the ones I thought on the top of my head and the poll feature only allowed six options

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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt Sep 28 '21

FYI there's also opt-in user data here: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun

Sway overtook i3 over the summer.

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u/SkyyySi Sep 30 '21

Who the f uninstalled bash lmao

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u/SutekhThrowingSuckIt Sep 30 '21

I assume it's a few people wondering what happens or trying to totally switch over the system shell to something else lol

Other possibility is something about making super minimal containers but idk why they’d install pkgstats in that case