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There is also http://swaywm.org/ http://swaywm.org/ which is supposed to be an i3 clone for Wayland

• vesak 9y ago
  Yeah, I know people are working on cloning i3. Perhaps these attempts will be successful some day, but so far, they are very lacking compared to what Gnome gives.
  • craftyguy 9y ago
    you're trying to compare a WM (i3) to a DE (GNOME). Of course the DE is going to have more stuff in it..
    • digi_owl 9y ago
      Never mind the question, do you need all that stuff? More and more i feel what is needed is not bigger DEs, but more useful, and non-DE oriented, standards.
      • majewsky 9y ago
        Same for me. I moved from being a heavy DE user to doing nearly everything in terminal windows over the years. I recently ditched NetworkManager for wpa_supplicant + systemd-networkd, and was surprised by how much faster the laptop now connects to the WiFi when wpa_supplicant is doing everything, rather than having to talk to at least two other processes (NetworkManager and its GUI applet) over DBus.
  • mijoharas 9y ago
    Personally I think of the lack of features in i3 as a feature (was going to check out sway when I get some time, seems nice). I like being able to configure my computer my own way. EDIT: Not that i3 lacks features, I've not found much I couldn't do with it. But it doesn't come packaged with a lot of other software like a DE does.