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So I'm a long time awesomewm user (5+ years) and when I started shopping around for a wm I tried both awesome and i3 (and another I don't recall the name). Awes
by capableweb 7y ago
So I'm a long time awesomewm user (5+ years) and when I started shopping around for a wm I tried both awesome and i3 (and another I don't recall the name). Awesome was easier to get started with and all the Lua code is easy to understand and use.
However, could someone who used both elaborate on the differences? Would I gain anything from trying to migrate to i3 instead?
At my point of view, only the community size is the difference, but that hasn't bothered me too much as awesome for most part just simply works.
- qzx_pierri 7y agoWhy change if Awesome works for you?
- capableweb 7y agoJust because it works doesn't mean there isn't better things out there. Wouldn't change if the benefits are not greater, obviously, but I find it healthy to always reconsider past choices every now and then.
- qzx_pierri 7y agotrue. I never thought about it that way.
- ppseafield 7y agoI moved from awesomewm to i3. The big difference for me when I changed over was that i3 didn't use templates for window placement. In its place is a tree-style system that's fairly intuitive IMHO. In i3 I also frequently switch between tabbed and split/tiled layouts, which IMHO is a killer feature.