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What does dwm do better than i3?
Edit: Found its selling point (from https://dwm.suckless.org/):
Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions.
- It’s faster to compile (to the point that it took less than a minute to compile on a vanilla Raspberry Pi 3B+).
- It’s smaller (the source code tarball is only 26 kB in size).
- It’s lighter (according to neofetch, if was only using 100 MB of RAM with only
stopen). - It looks a little different.
- It just has a different “feel” to i3 and Sway.
- Using it will earn you social clout in certain parts of the internet.
I love that it exists, and allows you to manage your windows with such a low footprint.
But after reading up on it, actually using it and deviating from the defaults in any way sounds tedious for no real benefit.
