R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵<p>Kinda frustrated with the state of <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/desktops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>desktops</span></a> in <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> / <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> / <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a></p><p>You can either have a fully functional, but kind of frustrating-to-use (too mouse-centric) desktop with Gnome or KDE Plasma, or you can have a lean, efficient, and fast wm/compositor like <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/i3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>i3</span></a>, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/sway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sway</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/awesomewm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>awesomewm</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/evilwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evilwm</span></a>, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/cwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cwm</span></a>, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/bspwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bspwm</span></a>, or whatever you like, BUT you will <em>constantly</em> be scratching your head when <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gnome</span></a> and <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/gtk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GTK</span></a> programs either start very slowly or refuse to run at all, and are constantly trying to figure out what combination of configuration, daemon, and small animal sacrifices are necessary to do what the big, bloated desktops do automatically.</p><p>It's freaking exhausting, and I want to go back to the days that every one just ran <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/icewm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IceWM</span></a>, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/enlightenment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enlightenment</span></a>, or <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/windowmaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WindowMaker</span></a>.</p><p>P.S., Just for clarity, I really do love <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KDE</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/plasma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plasma</span></a>. I think it's a wonderful, easy-to-use, <em>and</em> extremely flexible desktop. But sometimes I really don't want a desktop, I just want a lean-and-basic UI that stays out of my way (for home stuff vs. work stuff, generally).</p>