I don't think they are comparable anyway, plasma is a desktop environment not a window manager. I mean plasma5 has an incredible amount of features, and it's ex

I don't think they are comparable anyway, plasma is a desktop environment not a window manager. I mean plasma5 has an incredible amount of features, and it's extensible by Qt/QML widgets that are very easy to write. Sure you can say you don't really need its features, like it's bluetooth integration, its audio mixer, multihead display settings, notifications with individually configurable alerts, per-application or window customization, integrated screenshot and screen recording, MTP/NFS/SMB/etc. integration, file content fts, etc. etc. And I'm sure you could achieve all of it somehow in awesomewm/i3wm/etc. but to me it just feels like a waste of time and a bad user experience. Perhaps I'm just getting old and rather focus on more interesting things than the configuration files of my window manager. Disclaimer: I've been using Linux on the desktop exclusively since before Windows XP.