Why do people still use DE when things like i3 exist?

In no one's defense, every time someone posts a desktop with a tiling wm they always have randomass gaps that defeat the purpose of a tiling wm in the first place

I use 2bwm
minimal bloated and written in C

openbox + tmux

archfags like it. so no.

>reading comprehension
I'm configuring DWM as we speak. it literally takes no extra time to compile.

>archfags
What is arch?

best linux distro ever

>compile
>no extra time

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it's 2000 lines of code. how long do you think that takes?

Longer than not having to compile anything.

It doesn't though. it compiles about as slow as Hello World.

>Reading comprehension

the only reason it has to be compiled is because parsing output would require to check everything and parse it properly so instead of coding 200 lines more they skipped it, fucking lacy fucks

>What is arch?
script kiddie

Jow Forums will hate i3 now because it is too popular.

>i3 is too popular
>arch is too popular
>debian is too popular
I guess I'm gonna install OpenBSD and pretend I'm a l33t hax0r again

I3 is not great for my tiny Logitech keyboard for my media pc

>fug gui marks linux eye three gaps
>oben gimp
>fugggg
>oben blenders
>looks gud
>oh fugg hotkey conflicts
>cunnect secun monitor
>fugg
>me so horny
>need two hands to use i3gaps
>fugg
There is no need to be sad

You can manage multiple monitors with xrandr

And it works like shit

Retard.

>it helps me customize my computer
>for example, with just a few lines of code, I can make the clock appear on the status bar
>truly the arch way

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>autistic meme wm that is only used by neckbeards
>popular

>most desktop environments include a bloated GUI settings menu
>Ever since switching to I3, I have been manually editing config files and startup scripts instead of using a GUI
>Honestly, who wants to search through all those menus and sliders in a GUI?
>I prefer to read several articles on the arch wiki and then use vim and grep to find the right line on my config file
>Sometimes that doesn't work and I have to install font rendering packages such as freetype2 and libfonts
>As a minimalist, I am proud it doesn't do anything without me spending my free time to make it do things

Linux is an autistic meme that is only used by neckbeards.
So among us it is popular

You imbecile it's faster if it already looks what to do rather than having to look it up in a file and change to match it.

The amount of butthurt DE babies is amazing

topkek

kek'd, checked and /thread

i use i3 along with a real DE and am not autistic enough to insist on config files when GUI/other convenience programs like networkmanager

i just like the tiling really

Name a DE that can't tile windows.

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the purpose is to not have to waste time dragging your windows around to make them stop floating on top of each other. I don't see how tiny gaps so you can tell your windows apart defeats that purpose.

other convenience programs like networkmanager are available*

i'm using i3 and i approve this

windows

the absolute state of i3

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>not using xfce + openbox
Not gonna make it

why do people use i3 when stumpwm exists?

wow
>sudo apt install i3
u n33d m4d sk1llz

tilling wms are excellent for programming, for instance. A piece of the screen with a book, a piece with text editor or IDE and another piece with a terminal.
This is specially true if you only have one monitor. The other option is swinging back and forth through workspaces which sucks ass

and this is not even coming from a nerd with a riced ass i3, I also use DEs but for some tasks i3 is much more useful.
>pictured

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if all you do is watch porn and browse facebook then a tiling wm probably wont provide much utility. for those of us who use a computer for real work tiling wms provide a lot of utility. especially when it comes to repeated tasks that can be automated and switching between applications.

I guess it's not for me. Never had the dedication to configure a tiling wm and instead I've been using, for at least 5 years, xfce with numix themes and faenza icons.

>What is xmonad?

i3 comes with a damn good config, just with a slight learning curve. From that point it's pretty simple to add stuff and test as you go.

I like awesome better

haskell should never be used for anything that needs to be responsive to user inputs

Xmonad is based and Haskell works extremely well for it

>he still uses xorg
>not switching to sway

I don't like tiling and I don't see how it's useful after using i3 for a month. For terminal there's tmux.

based && redpilled

They're good on a laptop because using a trackpad sucks major balls

because it handles floating dialogs like dogshit
you can't even resize or move them

because DEs are the next logical step
the stone age era of computer interfaces is over, it's about time you learn to use tools that mix the best of both world.

I'm pretty sure you can use i3 in fully floating mode

Lisp.

so there's no real advantage on one over the other and you are just a fucking faggot trying to make people like shit you like. It's ok if you don't care about i3. DWM, Awesome and others are perfectly fine too and they are pretty much on the same ballpark of a minimal, easy to setup DM.
Just for a minute try to not be a huge idiot. Sit down there and shut the fuck up.

why do people use computers when smart phones exist?

why switch? most of my scripts would stop working

>It takes 5 seconds to compile

Therefore, it's slower

What does Awesome or DWM do better though, not trying to start an argument I'm just genuinely curious

You sound absolutely butt devasted my dude

sway is good, but xwayland seems to have input issues with SDL applications unfortunately.

Sway is still very buggy and half complete.

>replace xfwm with openbox
>leaving xfwm without being deleted
>mfw

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Sway has complete feature parity with i3 minus the very newest features that were added like a few weeks ago.

I wasn't the one trying to make people like shit I like. Use what you want and refrain from telling us what the fuck you do, nobody cares, this is not your blog faggot.

>run plasma
>set window as borderless
Voila. And I don't have to use tiling shit like an autist.

literally just map 'rm config.h ; sudo make install' in your vimrc and after you edit the config file just press on a single key and it will compile in couple hundred miliseconds. If you think one key press plus couple hundred miliseconds is too much then you're the retarded one.

Those effeminates tend to post on desktop threads. Utilitarians like me rarely post. I'll do a favour. Now, let your eyes feast on my 100% percent contrast, no gaps, 1 pixel borders, ultimate utilitarian master desktop setup.

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I use void with i3wm on my x60. Its got a old chip so it helps a ton.

On modern hardware I can't justify spending an entire afternoon ricing when Im just going to format it next week on an impulse.
KDE is my goto right now. Couldn't be happier.

2b more like 2 cute feet (｡>﹏

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>wm discussion thread
>devolves into desktop thread

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>st
lol
>dwm
epic suckless im sure you fucked around with the patches until it had basic features like pertag tiling
>black on white term colours
lol
>took the time to rice his dwm bar

i was using dwm before u even had pubes and it sucked and it still sucks

you can resize and move floating mode windows in i3

You can just do the same thing with tmux so tiling wms in general are stupid.

Check out my sick riced out neckbeard setup

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I really like since it runs very smoothly on my little acer

cause KDE is awesome and i don't have to use a shitbox as main

What if I use dwm because I prefer less eye candy, but I default every workspace to floating modes, and just use tmux..

What would you anons say about that?

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Because I got old, and got tired of screwing around.

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That's how I used i3 for a couple years until I learned how to tile properly.
Can't go back now

because tiling is a shit paradigm that assumes applications never use more than one window and the application window's size hints should be ignored. when i ask for an 80 x 40 terminal i shouldn't get 92 x 20. gimp shouldn't be tiled and the window manager shouldn't require extra instructions to do what the x server is telling it to do. tiling window managers are poorly behaved by default, this is beyond retarded. tiling is a few tiers below full screen, which is a tier below stacking.

It's the only paradigm that doesn't waste screen space

>muh wasted space
full screen wastes even less screen space. if you're going to ignore half of the x server's requests you might as well use ratpoison or stumpwm. having a window in each corner with a stacking wm covers the same screen space as tiling, not that it matters, i'm only actually using one window at a time because the x11 protocol only allows for one window to have focus at any given time.

admit it, you use tiling because you're a weeb with too much time on your hands and you think it makes you look like hackerman.

I concur.

I think if we lived in a world where the mouse wasn't invented, they would have a place...but really they're unnecessary...especially with multiple work spaces.

I am glad that people have the option to use them though.

What do you use?

i use openbox. i would use fluxbox if i was using it on its own but i use lxde and openbox is the default there.

>plebbox
kek

You can just make certain applications float if you really think they should for some autistic reason.

having to give special instructions to the wm to simply do what the x server is telling it to do is insane. it makes much more sense to tell the x server to tile windows you want tiled, which is what literally ever stacking wm can do.