On 07 Nov 2011, Allen S. Rout wrote: [snip]
I _really like_ xmonad. I think it's a delightfully featureful and spare WM universe, and I'm feeling in better control of my desktop than I've been since I ditched CTWM.
But insisting that new users be baptized into your church (or at least attend sunday school for a few months) is really bad for adoption.
I like xmonad a lot too. But as a non-programmer I found Haskell pretty intimidating. I was able to get things working by copying bits and pieces from stuff posted on the web but I had no real insight into what I was doing. I then looked at dwm, which I'd previously avoided because I don't know C. To my surprise, I found I was able to edit config.h without too much difficulty, patch the code to introduce a feature I wanted, and so on. And I think I understood pretty well what I was doing. Functionally and visually, xmonad and dwm are very similar. Xmonad is a bigger project, but for someone like me, with no programming background, I'd say that dwm is the easier choice. None of this is meant to be in any way a put-down for xmonad - just the experience of someone with no previous knowledge of either language. -- Anthony Campbell - ac@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell