Newbie Question: Which Linux distro and WM emacs users prefer?

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  • dwm

  • I know a lot of people like StumpWM and EXWM, but I use my own personal fork of dwm with emacs -nw. I am not really the typical emacs user, as I am more or less using emacs as I like common-lisp and I am trying to use emacs to make a vi, emacs, acme, and sam-like editing environment that slips into my broader system (which I am literally rewriting in common-lisp).

  • nyxt

    Nyxt - the hacker's browser.

  • For nyxt there is a short guide in their README.org.

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  • tech-roam

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  • I use exwm, but I've thought about trying stump due to exwm weirdnesses I experience day to day

  • river

    [mirror] A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor (by riverwm)

  • Window manager choice is less important for me, because I (tell myself to..) - don't use terminal emulators and refer Lisp REPL as my shell - do everything in Emacs - have 2 monitors XOR have at most 2 tiles side-by-side - look for performance first (wayland) and extensibility, feature-richness (XMonad or StumpWM) second. River (dynamic, written in zig https://github.com/ifreund/river) is best I could find on Wayland. I'd like to see Guile Wayland Compositor someday.

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