On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:07 AM, Bill Kontos vkontogpls@gmail.com wrote:
I use i3. Tilling wms are so good that I really don't understand why they are not used as much. Xmonad is also great, you can configure it using haswell.
Cool, glad to hear that someone out there is using it.
I still don't think that they get enough love though. They're getting popular in a few small communities (arch, and reddit, and that's about it). To lkcl's original quote "[TDE] is strategically quite important as it's one of the remaining comprehensive desktop environments that is also light-weight and relevant.", i3 and xmonad are more lightweight, and are more relevant to the sort of culture to which this mailing list is centered around.
A few more links for those that may be curious about tiling window managers, while I'm beating a dead horse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ofq4gpG_lM - Great introduction video https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_tiling_window_managers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ - active communty with lots of posted screenshots from various environments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKIwOlazKI