What's the good window manager for a beginner?

Linux Window Manager Utilities

i3 Landing Page
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i3

A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
Pricing:
- Open Source
A "Window Manager" usually refers to something a bit more bare bones. As another poster mentioned, i3 is a very popular choice. Being bare bones, however, an actual WM is probably going to be a bit more command line heavy and have a bit more of a learning curve. That's why I assume you're asking about DEs, not WMs.

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Xfce Landing Page

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Xfce

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.

If you want a full-featured solution, you're talking about a desktop environment. You have several good options there: GNOME, Plasma, and Cinnamon are very popular (if a bit more resource heavy) ones. Popular lighter desktop environments include XFCE and MATE.

#Linux #Operating Systems #Desktop Environments 19 social mentions
Atril Landing Page
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Atril

Atril is a simple multi-page document viewer. Atril is a fork of Evince.
Pricing:
- Open Source
If you want a full-featured solution, you're talking about a desktop environment. You have several good options there: GNOME, Plasma, and Cinnamon are very popular (if a bit more resource heavy) ones. Popular lighter desktop environments include XFCE and MATE.

#PDF Tools #PDF Editor #Office & Productivity 21 social mentions
KDE Plasma Desktop Landing Page

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KDE Plasma Desktop

Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE.

If you want a full-featured solution, you're talking about a desktop environment. You have several good options there: GNOME, Plasma, and Cinnamon are very popular (if a bit more resource heavy) ones. Popular lighter desktop environments include XFCE and MATE.

#Linux #Operating Systems #Desktop Environments 66 social mentions
Xmonad Landing Page
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Xmonad

xmonad is a dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell.
Pricing:
- Open Source
As far as wms go, I always liked fluxbox and xmonad. Openbox has its fans, and i3 is very popular. I prefer a de over a wm but I know a lot of people use i3.

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Fluxbox Landing Page

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Fluxbox

Fluxbox is a window manager for X that was based on the Blackbox 0.61.1 code.

As far as wms go, I always liked fluxbox and xmonad. Openbox has its fans, and i3 is very popular. I prefer a de over a wm but I know a lot of people use i3.

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