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There is also http://swaywm.org/ which is supposed to be an i3 clone for Wayland

Yeah, I know people are working on cloning i3. Perhaps these attempts will be successful some day, but so far, they are very lacking compared to what Gnome gives.

you're trying to compare a WM (i3) to a DE (GNOME). Of course the DE is going to have more stuff in it..

Never mind the question, do you need all that stuff?

More and more i feel what is needed is not bigger DEs, but more useful, and non-DE oriented, standards.

Same for me. I moved from being a heavy DE user to doing nearly everything in terminal windows over the years. I recently ditched NetworkManager for wpa_supplicant + systemd-networkd, and was surprised by how much faster the laptop now connects to the WiFi when wpa_supplicant is doing everything, rather than having to talk to at least two other processes (NetworkManager and its GUI applet) over DBus.

Personally I think of the lack of features in i3 as a feature (was going to check out sway when I get some time, seems nice).

I like being able to configure my computer my own way.

EDIT: Not that i3 lacks features, I've not found much I couldn't do with it. But it doesn't come packaged with a lot of other software like a DE does.

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