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After unity, I tried couple of DEs but then forced myself to stay with Gnome because I wanted to stop endless tinkering and get work done. I tried it for half a
by anthropodie 5y ago
After unity, I tried couple of DEs but then forced myself to stay with Gnome because I wanted to stop endless tinkering and get work done. I tried it for half a year and then switched to Sway, a tiling window manager.
Sway has little to no footprint. I have configured my system the way I like it. Now I do minor tweaks sometimes but nothing major. My entire configuration is in a single file! I am not going back to DEs ever.
- distantsounds 5y agoYou don't need a tiling window manager to get everything in a single config file. Fluxbox has historically been great at this, while still being extremely light on resources.
- anthk 5y agoFluxbox + rox + roxlib (for Rox plugins/addons) make the ultimate DE. Everything else can be made into systray applets such as blueman or nm-applet. As for theming, Zukitre for Fluxbox + any modern theme for icons. Done. Fancy, modern yet featureful as back in the day.
- filmor 5y agoSway is a window manager, not a DE. The right thing to compare it to is Mutter. I also use sway, but quite a few of my applications are from Gnome (like evince, nautilus, gnome-calendar, fractal...).
- SahAssar 5y agoCould you share your config? I also use sway but to me it seems like behind the statement "I have configured my system the way I like it" there is quite a lot of configuration. Also when saying "My entire configuration is in a single file", do you also include things that are normally configured in a DE settings app, like wifi, disk auto mounting, bluetooth connections, sound settings/volumes, display configurations, etc? I like (and use everyday) sway and I like using WM's as a part of puzzling together a system. I just don't think you are comparing apples to apples here.