Sorry but how do people use only wm's on some arch installation

Windows key+Shift opens the terminal I believe and you can type in the name of program you want to run. I outgrew the ricing muh efficiency meme. No linux is stable,or optimized enough to compete with winblows sadly

If they have a WM there's no reason why they couldn't boot into a graphical environment. The difference between a WM and DE is that the DE also includes GUI frontends for the settings, a GUI calculator, GUI text editor etc. You can install all of those manually.

>how to use WMs
Keybindings
>how to start GUI applications
rofi
>do you need to start it from a tty shell
You can do that, or use a DM like SDDM or SLiM.

>>60365556
you refer arch so
1. it will boot to login prompt
2. if you have a greeter and it is enabled you will see a gui instead
if 1. you login and startx which looks in .xinitrc for wm or de to exec
if 2. you select wm or de and log in

after that you would usually see nothing (almost)
set wallpaper with feh or pcmanfm if you want
call virtual terminal with W + some key or whatever
etc

>protip
dwm is the best

>>60365631
stability isn't an issue man, the problem is application compatibility, sure Linux installs have their problems, but Windows has just as many issues which people simply got used to.

>>60365556
I use: openbox
Start procedure:
>boot
>sign in
>startx; exit
>alt+y (launches dmenu)
>pavucontrol
>alt+y -> urxvt (size is relative to pavucontrol window size)
>alt+y -> thunderbird
>alt+y -> firefox
>alt+y -> keepassx
And that's about all I need.

>>60365879
why not use the obviously superior Fluxbox?

>>60366004
I've been using openbox for eight years now. I have no fucks left to give for change for the sake of change.

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>>60365815
Start x? Isnt that x.org

>>60366048
wayland is unusable in my exp atm

>skip DM
>autostart WM
>WM has its own autostart file
so...?

You don't even need a WM, X is smart enough.

I don't think you know what a DE entails. If you start switching DEs to try to find something pretty, you'll quickly realise all your applications change too

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>>60366242
Why is it?