[arch-general] [OT?] Which is most future-proof desktop environment?

[Bennett Piater]

I'm another extremely satisfied i3wm user.

Dmenu is amazing, and everything about i3 is so clean.
The config file syntax, the design principles, the container system, the
looks...

I use ranger as a (text-mode) file manager and dolphin when I want a
graphical one. Gwenview as image viewer. I tend to like KDE apps though.
I use VimFX for Firefox.

It's incredibly fast, stable and very configurable while remaining much
more approacheable than awesome. You can even upgrade it without logging
out and back in or losing the layout, which is a *huge* bonus.
You can have x sessions running for months without having to log out.

I have decided. I don't think I'll ever leave i3.

On 12/28/2015 12:12 PM, Emil Lundberg wrote:
> I've been very happy with i3wm since I started using it, but I suppose it
> probably doesn't qualify as a desktop environment. I like the flexible
> keyboard-driven layouting and vim-like keybindings, and dmenu gives random
> access to any application without the need for menus or the like. I don't
> like the interruption of having to reach for the mouse. Combined with vim,
> tmux and Pentadactyl (a vim shell for Firefox), I get a setup where I
> rarely need to take my hand off the keyboard. If I were to choose a setup
> to stick with forever, this would be it.
> 

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