What are the better options? I've been out of the game for a while and just been using Gnome.
There are about 300 people working daily on these servers. I'm team "enlightenment" and got about 50 people supporting me. There is the i3/sway camp (30ish people), there is the dwm camp (10-15 people), and there is the "please anything with modern UX at all" (estimate: 200 people).
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dwm may be worth a look: https://dwm.suckless.org/