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Suggestions for WM/DE (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux

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I'm going to be doing a clean install of Arch Linux on an old ThinkPad tomorrow morning, and I'd like some suggestions for a window manager, desktop environment, or Wayland compositor.

It can have a learning curve, but I would like it to not have too steep a learning curve (I have been using i3 for a while, and I have just come from LeftWM which I configured to have i3 keybinds). Also, in order to make it fairly obvious to my peers that I'm using Linux, I'd like it to look nothing like Windows or macOS.

Preferably something light (at least out of the box). When I was using LeftWM, my RAM usage was often around 200MB. I recently did a system analysis and I have 8GB of RAM, but my CPU will hold me back. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo of the Penryn microarchitecture (x86_64-v1).

Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I've been using Sway and it's good. It's basically i3 but for Wayland.

I also like dwm, but it probably doesn't qualify for the learning curve part. It's not too bad as long as you can read C code and know how to compile things from source.