I'm about to reinstall arch and I'm considering using xmonad. I've previously used dwm, bspwm, and currently gnome as my de/wm. What are you guy's experiences with xmonad? Stability, configuration, whatever. Also what are your favorite wm's and why?
>>57920011
My experience is good. Just make sure you don't mix the distro's repo xmonad packages with cabal's packages. For xmonad to be able to run you need a running haskell environment so it requires a lot more disk space than say i3. But running xmonad should be very light.
i always liked awesomewm and i got used to the semi-default keybinds
then everyone shitposted like a year later that awesome sucks or something so I tried switched but never found anything I liked.
worse version of i3 with an autistic configuration
>>57920226
Autistic because of Haskell? And what makes it worse than i3?
>>57920226
>too stupid to learn Haskell: The post
>>57920096
So stop get meme'd and use what you like.
>>57920136
Rei or bust
>>57920096
awesomewm is very comfy. I use it.
>>57920011
xmonad is shit, dafuq is goin on with all the haskell faggets
>>57921608
What I'm trying to find out is if people just don't like haskell or if xmonad itself has inadequacies aside from haskell which is obviously subjective.
Herbstluftwm. It simply the best.
>>57921897
That's pretty similar to bspwm right? It's a really pretty wm from what I've seen.
What are the advantages of all these different wms?
t. only ever used i3
>>57921897
why Herbstluftwm when xmonad exists?
Unity because when you press alt it brings up the options in the menu bar so you don't have to manually search for it. Also super key is married to the programs in the task bar according to their number.
>>57922250
Comfortable keybindings are one of the best reasons to use a tiling wm. Obviously you can make custom keybinds without one but when navigation is mainly done through the keyboard it makes the whole experience much comfier.
Looks like pornhub ui
>>57921947
Actually, what are the advantages of using only a WM?
>>57922392
It's fast, simple and as the name suggests it does window management for you so you don't have to.
>>57922392
Super light on system resources, no bloatware, and customized to your personal liking are the main reasons I like it. The aesthetics appeal to some people too.
I'm a huge fan of Stumpwm. It's cozy, but only if you know Common Lisp.
cool desktop thread
>>57920011
Share your config? Like the colors.
>>57923919
That's not mine, it's from some dude's deviant art. http://www.deviantart.com/art/Xmonad-0-9-1-153059185
>>57923707
Did you know lisp beforehand or did you learn it for stumpwm? I've actually not heard of the wm.
>>57922206
Ease of configurability
Bash scripting to make your own custom keybinds
Implementing in seconds
It just werks
>>57923707
for some reason i never got SLIME to work properly with it