Newbie to window manager, why use awesome over other dynamic wm ?

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  • dwm-flexipatch

    A dwm build with preprocessor directives to decide which patches to include during build time

    a lot of functionality can be added with patches, but you have to try and juggle those all yourself (and work out any conflicts between them yourself) - there are some projects like dwm-flexipatch to try and make it easier to deal with them, but it's way more trouble than I am interested in

  • qtile-examples

    Example configurations and scripts for Qtile

    basic notification system and example server

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  • cozy

    a practical + productive setup (by garado)

    Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).

  • KwesomeDE

    A desktop environment made in AwesomeWM

    Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).

  • the-glorious-dotfiles

    A glorified personal dot files

    Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).

  • dotfiles

    My AwesomeWM configuration files!! 🌪️ . (preparing for new design) (by moonlight-coffee)

    Awesome is very different from other window managers...It's a framework window manager! Through its API you can create widgets that are not possible in other WMs (ex: [1],[2],[3].[4]). Furthermore, AwesomeWM can be used as a tiling window managers and as a stacking window managers (like XFCE).

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