u/kyleW_ne

Hi all,

tl;dr:
Two questions:
Is Awesome a good first tilling wm that I won't have to write a ton of lua for to make work? How long did it take to feel at home in it?

I see from the project's website that there hasn't been a release since 2022, and perusing the most recent posts on here I see that the package was dropped from Debian 14 Forky (potentially temporarily) (I'm on Debian 12). Is Awesome WM going to be around for the long haul? I have no interest in Wayland this decade.

See below for more of my experience with DEs, WMs, and Unix-like Operating systems if you need info.

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Backstory:

I am a long time Linux user, since I was 13 in 2003. From Knoppix to Xandros, Debian 7, Debian 12, MX, Anti X, Xubuntu, FreeBSD 11.x and 12.x, several OpenBSD 7.x releases, you name it I've used it.

I've used DEs and WMs that are equally diverse: KDE 3.x, Gnome 2.x, XFCE, icewm, jwm, and this particular post comes to you via Chrome running on Fluxbox. One thing I have never been able to do for more than a month though is: use a tiling window manager.

Icewm and Fluxbox are my most recent go to WMs, but they don't fit me like a glove, there are rough edges I get cut on, they are great 80% of the time when I need full screen apps but the minute I launch more than one program that is full screen repositioning the programs becomes difficult, I can't snap to edges and resize easily and I find myself spending more time trying to resize the windows.

So it sounds like I would be a good fit for a TWM then doesn't it? Well there is another problem... I'm not much of a programer! I have a BS in Computer Science and work as a system admin but find myself even at my job just my eyes glazing over looking at code.

I've watched all the good youtubers videos on TWMs, Distrotube, Linux Cast, just to name two.

So I'm familiar with the big TWMs, Awesomewm, DWM, Herbsluft, i3, Xmonad, etc.

Earlier this week I was finally like enough is enough with Fluxbox, lets go down the TWM rabbit hole again and try to pick one. Best I ever did was last 30 days with stock i3.

Hi I am an almost 36 year old autistic and I have this weird belief that friendships should be for life. Every friend I've ever lost in life I view as a personal failure. Like I have failed at life by this person leaving me. I've lost numerous best friends over the years of both genders. Do I just suck as a person or is it natural to get abandoned by people you call your best friends? Why am I unable to cope with this happening to me?

Hi so I've been playing a bit over a year and am starting to learn about worm hole space. I also have a bit of a fascination with dreads- I love that they can use high angle weapons and capital weapons and how they seem like the next step up from my marauder. (Won't be able to effectively fly a dread till January of 2027...)

Anyways I was looking up some Phoenix kills and came across a dread kill in a C1, how is what I want to know? Aren't C1's only big enough for frigate sized ships? Was it manufactured there? But that raises the question how did they get the structure in there to build the dread?

I'm very confused... Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me figure it out!

Here is the Zkill board link: https://zkillboard.com/kill/136356906/