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Arch has kinda blossomed into a nano-debian status, people start to build stuff upon it, archbang, archhurd, it's great.

The former has filled the 'out of the box' niche sort of, now you have a minimalist yet ready to use system.

# note aside, about nixos, I can't tell how it's gonna turn out, but for once it's a linux system with a real paradigm shift. Funny how non-mutable ideas are spreading these days, btrfs, nix, even git.

# second note, have you seen this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jULGE0rq8M ? makes me wanna say 'tiling' is the only 'management' right now, stacking doesn't do sh*t.

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You may be right. I have only recently made the switch to wm, mostly because of the problems with gnome 3. Originally gnome was the only de that I liked, absolutely hated KDE for no real reason other than something about it bothered me. Then gnome 3 just ruined it.

Then I discovered wms. I'm probably more attracted to openbox because the stacking is closer to the sort of window management that you would get in any de.

However, I so very rarely have a bunch of windows open at once that I need to see all at once. And I can also easily open, close, move, resize, switch screens, etc. with the keyboard. I'll give it a try before I say that it's not for me though. Who knows, maybe I'll use one for when I'm working on projects.

Which tiling one do you use? awesome?

Xmonad mainly, look at the video you'll see some usages where tiling shines ( chat , monitor ), only drawback, it requires haskell which is a large bundle. When space is limited , dwm6, less fancy tile modes but super tiny.

I found those peaceful to use, you just forget they're here even though they lay things for you.

Should start a Tiling WM thread :D

For some reason (there must be a limit on the number of subthread levels) there was no reply link under your last message so I'm replying to my own in the hopes that you're reading it.

I'm sure there are quite a few wm/de threads on the arch forums. They get a little repetitive though. Maybe a thread about the less obvious subtleties and tricks for your favorite wm.

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