xavier666 comments on In your opinion, which FOSS software is by many considered "old" or "obsolete", but are in fact, in your opinion, in many ways better than the newer alternatives?

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 15 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

i3wm

It's now more than a decade old and considered feature-complete 2 years back. But the basic usage is still the same since its initial launch. No matter how many versions of Windows or Gnome or KDE come and go, I use i3 in the same as I did when it launched. I don't need "new" features because the existing features are more than enough.

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[–] Panamanap@feddit.de 5 points 3 years ago

This. After the initial learning for i3wm I never looked back.

And I dread the times where I have to use something else (work environment...)

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[–] runarskoll@beehaw.org 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

I fell completely in love by the look and practicality of what i see and listen about i3wm. It all started when exploring unixporn on reddit.

It's one of the things that make me sad for not being linux-savvy and even if I was I couldn't use it for my daily driver because my company/team work is based on the whole Microsoft Office suite.

So I just contemplate the minimalist beauty of it.

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[–] flauschke@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago

sway is the wayland based modern alternative that I use (and prefer). It does not do anything flashy and most i3 config options work just the same.

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