Gnome 41.1, it just works, has everything I need and is quite simple.
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#32Xfce. I like it, lol.
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#33Dwm here (it's like i3 or awesome: a tiling wm).
I love tiling WM and would.never go back to "floating" ones. It a bit ugly at first but so much more usable: windows don't change place, you can easily replace them using only the keyboard, etc..
If you want to try a WM don't go for dwm: it's "too" simple and you need plenty of other helper scripts (volume control, resolution change, ...), But use a more "advanced" (user friendly) one instead
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#34I ended up trying out Fedora 35 after years of Debian/Devuan.
Super happy with the Gnome experience. The whole OS feels very professional and polished - reminiscent of OSX, where you still have command line powers.
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#35xfwm
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#36sway for coding and gnome when need to talk via zoom
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#37i3 wm.
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#38Currently running Arch + i3, which I have done for years. However, I have recently been thinking of moving to a more featured setup. I've decided this weekend to fresh install Manjaro and Gnome
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#39I use a different UI depending on my mood.
XFCE, open box, ratpoison, awesomewm, dwm
XFCE and open box are floating. You can set up some key binds to snap windows. Overall I think floating + snaps are superior to pure tiling. I use XFCE when i want a big fat desktop environment. Pure open box for something light.
Sometimes I want pure tiling. ratpoison (manual tiler) is my mainstay for that. Occasionally use awesome or dwm for a dynamic tiler.
Re: Ask HN: What's your Linux window manager and/or desktop environment?
#40Dwm because it sucks less https://dwm.suckless.org/
I used to use ST, but I got real bored of suckless
Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. There are some distributions that provide binary packages though.