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@ -14,46 +14,50 @@ always kept coming back to. I think it's because it's pretty much the only one
that felt completely different from what the rest of the world was doing. It
helped me with thinking about Linux as being different from windows. After this
first year though, I came across a few videos about tiling window managers and
wanted to try one. The first one I installed was i3.
wanted to try one. The first one I installed was [i3](https://i3wm.org/).
I hated it.
I had a hard time configuring it as I didn't really know what I was doing. Other
than that, I found it plain awkward to use. The way it tiles windows -- and how
you _still_ have to babysit pretty much every last one of them -- drives me away
from i3 to this day. I'm sure it has the potential to be a great window manager.
It's just _really_ not for me. Which is a shame, I would really like to properly
live in Wayland with Sway for at least a little while.
I had a hard time configuring it as I didn't really know what I was doing.
Other than that, I found it plain awkward to use. The way it tiles windows --
and how you _still_ have to babysit pretty much every last one of them --
drives me away from i3 to this day. I'm sure it has the potential to be a great
window manager. It's just _really_ not for me. Which is a shame, I would really
like to properly live in Wayland with [Sway](https://swaywm.org/ "Sway is like
i3 in Wayland") for at least a little while.
After a few hours of trying to get things to work in i3, I went back to GNOME.
Some time later, I came across AwesomeWM. It was being recommended as a fairly
easy window manager to start with -- it having window decorations and it's own
menu system. The first thing I did was try-and fail to rip out said menu system
and window decorations. I was putting too much on myself trying to learn the
basics of both using a tiling window manager and Lua.
Some time later, I came across [AwesomeWM](https://awesomewm.org/). It was
being recommended as a fairly easy window manager to start with -- it having
window decorations and it's own menu system. The first thing I did was try-and
fail to rip out said menu system and window decorations. I was putting too much
on myself trying to learn the basics of both using a tiling window manager and
Lua.
Some time after that, I came across BSPWM. This was the first time where I felt
like I _really_ managed to get a tiling window manger to do what I wanted it to
do. For some odd reason, there are people out there who consider BSPWM a more
"advanced" window manger. I really don't get why. To this day, I am of the
opinion that SXHKD's configuration syntax is some of the best out there. I think
it took me around 10 minutes to wrap my head around the basics. Somewhere around
an afternoon later, I had a config that served me well for the next few months
to come.
Some time after that, I came across
[BSPWM](https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm). This was the first time where I
felt like I _really_ managed to get a tiling window manger to do what I wanted
it to do. For some odd reason, there are people out there who consider BSPWM a
more "advanced" window manger. I really don't get why. To this day, I am of the
opinion that SXHKD's configuration syntax is some of the best out there. I
think it took me around 10 minutes to wrap my head around the basics. Somewhere
around an afternoon later, I had a config that served me well for the next few
months to come.
A while after BSPWM, I decided to give suckless' DWM a shot. Despite my lack of
knowledge of C, this very quickly became my favorite window manager at the time.
There is just something about the insanity of using diff files to configure your
piece of software when perfectly functional configuration libraries and
languages exist that got it's hooks in me. I also caught the minimalism bug
around this time, so DWM's nearly non-existent memory footprint was also great.
Despite this really being the first really "advanced" window manager, I had an
easier time configuring it than AwesomeWM or i3. It was also the first time
where I could appreciate the master-stack layout properly and not having to
think about keeping track of windows in two dimensions anymore. It made me
realise that I want to have to think as little as possible about window
positioning. It was the reason I couldn't deal with i3's paradigm and shifted
away from BSPWM the moment I found DWM.
A while after BSPWM, I decided to give suckless'
[DWM](https://dwm.suckless.org/) a shot. Despite my lack of knowledge of C,
this very quickly became my favorite window manager at the time. There is just
something about the insanity of using diff files to configure your piece of
software when perfectly functional configuration libraries and languages exist
that got it's hooks in me. I also caught the minimalism bug around this time,
so DWM's nearly non-existent memory footprint was also great. Despite this
really being the first really "advanced" window manager, I had an easier time
configuring it than AwesomeWM or i3. It was also the first time where I could
appreciate the master-stack layout properly and not having to think about
keeping track of windows in two dimensions anymore. It made me realise that I
want to have to think as little as possible about window positioning. It was
the reason I couldn't deal with i3's paradigm and shifted away from BSPWM the
moment I found DWM.
I ran DWM as my main window manger for over a year before having issues with
some fullscreen applications and the JetBrains suite, which I had to use for
@ -77,7 +81,8 @@ arsedly maintain an Alpine package of my fork).
For quite a long time I used DWM and AwesomeWM depending on whether I was
planning on frequently using fullscreen applications and how strong the machine
in question was; AwesomeWM being noticeably slower than DWM on _really_ old
machines (like RejuvinatedBrick). Until at some point, I came across XMonad.
machines (like RejuvinatedBrick). Until at some point, I came across
[XMonad](https://xmonad.org/).
I tried it for an evening.