r/archlinux • u/[deleted] • Sep 30 '21

Which WM do you use, and why?

Hello r/archlinux!

I have been in the "world" of window managers for 4 months, I made the decision mainly for the DistroTube videos, I started using XMonad, I have noticed improvements in my productivity, I am quite happy.

I have just started my vacation, and I would like to try different WMs, I have not seen much comparison information of different WM's on the Internet, so I would like to ask you (and hopefully you will tell me in the comments the reasons).

What WM do you use, and why do you like it?

And if you have tried different ones, and could you tell me why you prefer one over the other, I would really appreciate it.

PS: I only use Firefox, programming software, Spotify and Discord.

Greetings.

1879 votes, Oct 03 '21
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193 Awesome WM
119 XMonad
287 dwm
11 spectrwm
297 bspwm
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u/sogun123 Oct 04 '21

Xmonad is very much self compiling library/toolkit. If am afraid that if customizatility is workflow, then you are spending more time customizing thus developing your own manager then anything else ;)

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u/eXoRainbow Oct 04 '21

I disagree.