Ran Windowmaker for a long time on my laptop in the early and mid 00s, on Gentoo. It's entirely fine when you're not going to be able to run more than 3-4 thing

Ran Windowmaker for a long time on my laptop in the early and mid 00s, on Gentoo. It's entirely fine when you're not going to be able to run more than 3-4 things at a time anyway, and manage all your system stuff like wifi from the command line, because the GUI tools are unreliable or absent. Very light, and tiny on disk. Eventually switched to XFCE near the end of my time with Gentoo, and kept that when I changed distro to Ubuntu.