# A month in DWM - Moving forward with my setup

For about a year and half I've been using [i3wm](https://i3wm.org/) as my daily driver under Debian and Gentoo(for my short time with it) and I'lve loved it thus far. 
As with many things however, it started to get old and I wanted something new without having to distro-hop.

[DWM](https://dwm.suckless.org/) interested me as its memory usage footprint is tiny compared to i3wm and follows the [suckless philosophy](https://suckless.org/philosophy/) which I still found interesting.

## Is it /comfy/?

Absolutely. But I'll let this little clip speak for itself:

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Once you get past a couple of hurdles with it things becomes really nice and to be honest have spoiled me to the point of just basic tasks in other setups has become painful. 
_If you're a vim user then you'll know the feeling._

## Hurdles

First off configuring anything blows. Recompiling things is just dumb and means you have to:

1. Close everything because you will have to exit dwm + X11
2. Exit DWM +  X11
3. Make changes & recompile
4. Test changes
5. Often tweak changes and go back to step 2

Patching is obnoxious on the premiss that I don't want to shut literally everything down just to rice. 
Which means I messing with things becomes boring leaving me to go do something else.