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What does dwm do better than i3?
Edit: Found its selling point (from https://dwm.suckless.org/):
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.
- It's faster to compile (to the point that it took less than a minute to compile on a vanilla Raspberry Pi 3B+).
- It's smaller (the source code tarball is only 26 kB in size).
- It's lighter (according to neofetch, if was only using 100 MB of RAM with only
stopen). - It looks a little different.
- It just has a different "feel" to i3 and Sway.
- Using it will earn you social clout in certain parts of the internet.
No need to deal with config files, you don't know the location of. And I don't know about i3 but many window managers use some really annoying configuration languages like xml.
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.
Lol. I know a few people like this. They are truly unpleasurable to interact with.
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