i3 or bspwm? Which one to go for?

i3 for me

I3wm

i3 is the standard, the one with the best community support. All others are... more adventurous. I like xmonad because Haskell clicks pretty well with my brain...

Although truth be told, after 6 years of using tiling WMs, I went to cinnamon. I still feel like tiling is superior, but cant be arsed to fidget so much with configs anymore.

@bittersweet any window smaller than half my screen is useless to me, can't read small text comfortably. Besides, vim has all the tiling support I need 😎 amen to the config thing though, I spent way too much time fucking around with i3 in first year, which is probably why I didn't do too hot. Currently using gnome, I miss xfce but it's a small price to pay for basic Nvidia Optimus support out of the box.

@bittersweet It might be the standard but I don't find it that easy to setup. Manjaro has a i3 installation which I might try out.

@Kyu96 The standard is rarely the best nor the easiest, it's just a reasonable average.

The advantage of i3 is that the communities (reddit, etc) are of such a size that it's easy to get quick answers to questions & find examples/plugins.

What made i3 popular is the easy text format... which makes it easy to config, but hard(er) to extend.

In my opinion, qtile.org is very low threshold for extension for most devs, if you know a little bit of python. It's both flexible and easy to understand.

I think that's the most important factor: Be comfortable with the config language, as you'll probably spend a lot of time editing your config.

AWM is either amazing or complete torture, depending on whether you like LUA. Same with xmonad & Haskell, or dwm & recompiled C config.