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Con It's a WM, not a DE
This isn't really a con, indeed a pro for man, but since this is a list of 'Desktop Environments', I figured I should mention it. This can be remedied with the i3-gnome project, which uses some of the back-end functionality from Gnome to give i3wm DE features, if you miss any of that.
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i3wm
Recommended 2 years ago
I use i3wm and i3-gaps daily for my work linux laptop. I have modded the config to include thirty virtual desktops to allow a lot of windows and some window-numbers specific to apps. as i3wm is mainly keyboard driven, i can kill a window with $mod+CTRL+Q or use $mod+M to open Remmina to remote into numero...
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Keyboard centricPro
Completely customizablePro
Minimal and fasti3wm
Recommended 5 years ago
I much prefer this over supposed 'auto' tiling window managers. Auto-tiling is almost never useful for things beyond terminals and browser windows, so I'd rather spend a bit of time setting up an i3 config with app-capturing layouts that make everything 'just work'. It's not 'simp...
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Keyboard centricPro
Completely customizablePro
Minimal and fastCon
It's a WM, not a DE