I have been using fluxbox[1] for many years now, happily. It's a very barebones thing (in a good way) while also being highly configurable — customizable keyboard shortcuts, menus, scriptability, etc. It is not a tiling WM. It also doesn't have desktop icons by default. I thought I would miss those, but have found I do not. There are options[2] to add that if you want it. So, my setup is ~8 virtual... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

If you want to customize in detail your desktop and are not afraid to edit text files, awesome and fluxbox can be your option. Source: over 1 year ago

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. Source: over 2 years ago

Linux (Fedora), gvim (because it opens a new window instead of taking up yet-another-terminal-tab), fluxbox (because it has awesomely configurable hot-key support), dotfiles, chruby + ruby-install (with rubies installed into /opt/rubies), bundler + rspec + yard + rubygems-tasks + gemspec_yml + GitHub Actions on all of my Ruby projects. Source: over 2 years ago

You can use cinnamon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(desktop_environment)) Should work a bit better not perfected. If you are on a potato run fluxbox imo. http://fluxbox.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

All jokes aside, this is a very serious question when it comes to Google products [1]. Imagine having spent 5K on a Jamboard... [1] https://killedbygoogle.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

Https://killedbygoogle.com (and https://gcemetery.co ) the list is endless. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

Alright, let's kick another party off: https://killedbygoogle.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

Someday Google could very likely terminate gmail accounts that block youtube ads Then there is this which just scrolls on and on forever https://killedbygoogle.com (or https://gcemetery.co ). - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

With Google’s graveyard[1] growing so fast, I’m careful with new Google announcements. An API like this sounds particularly problematic to replace sometime in future. [1]: https://killedbygoogle.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago