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A month in DWM - Moving forward with my setup
For about a year and half I've been using i3wm 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 interested me as its memory usage footprint is tiny compared to i3wm and follows the suckless philosophy which I still found interesting.
Is it /comfy/?
Absolutely. But I'll let this little clip speak for itself:
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:
- Close everything because you will have to exit dwm + X11
- Exit DWM + X11
- Make changes & recompile
- Test changes
- 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.