There's a middle ground though. I think most people would consider OpenBSD for instance to be "small." It comes packed full of tools, many of which you might

There's a middle ground though. I think most people would consider OpenBSD for instance to be "small." It comes packed full of tools, many of which you might never use. Many things come with "user friendly" config formats. I don't think anyone in their right mind would call it bloated (as far as reasonably modern unixalikes are concerned), but it's also far from being so minimalistic as to require you to configure things at source level. And in OpenBSD, you find this window manager called cwm. It's not exactly comparable; hardcore dwm users would no doubt be very disappointed with it. However, I use both WMs and both suck & are good in their own ways. cwm has a config format and you don't need a compiler and the entire toolchain to be able to configure it. On the other hand, you don't have all the useful patches people have made for dwm over the years. cwm is small, and not bloated.