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I am surprised FVWM is still around. It was the first window manager I was exposed to in the 90s and my experience was very negative. Its default configuration

I am surprised FVWM is still around. It was the first window manager I was exposed to in the 90s and my experience was very negative. Its default configuration was terribly ugly and the software expose a bazillion of option to the user for customizing. At the time this seemed sort of cool but I learnt it is just very bad as it take a lot of your time to customize things and at the end it still looks amateurish. Since then I consider good software those that have sane defaults out of the box and have only as few options as possible and only for doing useful customization. I generally consider as bad software those that omit to take decisions and leave to the user the responsibility by exposing all the minute options. FVWM was a sort of champion in this respect.

coldtea 5y ago
To contrast, I have very fond memories of FVWM from the nineties, always liked its minimalism and default "padded" look (I mean the beleved buttons and bars -- basically what the use in the current website as its theme: https://www.fvwm.org/ https://www.fvwm.org/ ). FVWM was no-fuss to get things done, Englitenment and co were for the more Emo-types who liked "edgy" themes. Later, I also used Windowmaker and Blackbox, and at some point I gave up and had a full-on KDE as the desktop.
- frankohn 5y ago
  I moved to WindowMaker that I loved for its elegance and to icewm. This latter had none of the elegance of windowmaker but it used very low memory resources and had a decent windows-like look. I considered blackbox and tried to use it but it was too minimalist for me. In any case I never looked back to fvwm.