{"slug": "awesome", "name": "awesome", "category": "os", "category_name": "Operating systems and desktop", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 8, "warners": 0, "score": 3.263, "rising": -0.65, "first": "2025-11-14", "latest": "2026-07-20", "why": "I'm still on AwesomeWM for now because I have no real reason to incur the pain of switching", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 6, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I'm still on AwesomeWM for now because I have no real reason to incur the pain of switching", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["awesome", "AwesomeWM", "awesomewm", "Awesome WM"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 773981328, "item_id": 48373833, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373833", "by": "NoboruWataya", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm still on AwesomeWM for now because I have no real reason to incur the pain of switching", "excerpt": "Slight tangent but has anyone moved from AwesomeWM to a Wayland-based tiling WM? Interested to hear what people chose. I tried Sway for a bit and while it's not bad by any means it's a bit too unlike what I'm used to. SomeWM is an attempt at \"porting\" AwesomeWM to Wayland and looks very promising but not quite there yet (I couldn't get Vicious widgets working and not sure if supporting them is even a goal). I'm still", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"}, {"id": 734868512, "item_id": 45929282, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929282", "by": "CSDude", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "then switched to awesomewm used it for years", "excerpt": "I used Xmonad for a while, then switched to awesomewm used it for years. It was good on a 1366x768 screen to use space efficiently.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "XMonad", "story": "Moving Back to a Tiling WM \u2013 XMonad"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "benrutter", "context": "Linux user", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822205", "date": "2026-01-30"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["tiling window manager", "window manager", "personal tiling window manager"], "compared": [{"slug": "fvwm", "name": "FVWM", "co": 2, "switched_from": 2, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "i3", "name": "i3", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "xmonad", "name": "XMonad", "co": 2, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "qtile", "name": "Qtile", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "sway", "name": "Sway", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982011", "title": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48370588", "title": "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144", "title": "It's time to talk about my writerdeck", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648452", "title": "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820468", "title": "The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291172", "title": "FVWM-95 (2001)", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 783737425, "item_id": 48983589, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983589", "by": "vbernat", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I have switched from FVWM to awesome because of Lua.", "excerpt": "I have switched from FVWM to awesome because of Lua. Many years later, I have switched to i3 because it's not using a programming language for configuration. It's fine to have a configuration language if you have time to maintain, but your configuration can become quite complex and difficult to evolve. And it is also far more subject to breakage when upgrading. I think I've found balance by using a Python daemon as a", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "FVWM", "story": "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"}, {"id": 773981328, "item_id": 48373833, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373833", "by": "NoboruWataya", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm still on AwesomeWM for now because I have no real reason to incur the pain of switching", "excerpt": "Slight tangent but has anyone moved from AwesomeWM to a Wayland-based tiling WM? Interested to hear what people chose. I tried Sway for a bit and while it's not bad by any means it's a bit too unlike what I'm used to. SomeWM is an attempt at \"porting\" AwesomeWM to Wayland and looks very promising but not quite there yet (I couldn't get Vicious widgets working and not sure if supporting them is even a goal). I'm still", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"}, {"id": 772020128, "item_id": 48251258, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251258", "by": "mateioo7", "date": "2026-05-23", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Since I use the extremely configurable awesomewm window manager", "excerpt": "This article reminded me of something I've been thinking a lot these past few months, that is having my computer split in 2 modes: 1. work, having everything available in a desktop OS 2. personal, a console-only mode with a few basic functionalities I consider not time wasting: ebook reader, weather forecast, next sport events, 1 TV show episode per day, calculator, calendar, timer, etc Since I use the extremely conf", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "It's time to talk about my writerdeck"}, {"id": 762403571, "item_id": 47650223, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650223", "by": "TacticalCoder", "date": "2026-04-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use the tiling \"Awesome WM\"", "excerpt": "I had a machine (an AMD 3700X with 32 GB of RAM and a fast NVMe SSD) on which I used to run Debian. Then about 2.5 years ago I bought a new one and gave my wife the 3700X: I figured out she'd be more at ease so I installed Ubuntu on it. I couldn't understand why everything was that slow compared to Debian and didn't want to bother looking into it so... After a few weeks: got rid of Ubuntu, installed her Debian. A sim", "context": "", "use_case": "personal tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"}, {"id": 749155281, "item_id": 46822205, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46822205", "by": "benrutter", "date": "2026-01-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've used i3, awesome and pop quite a bit.", "excerpt": "I love the WM innovation that is happening in Linux right now. I've used i3, awesome and pop quite a bit. That said, I've gone full circle and just use a regular ol' floating style for now. This is because if the realisation that my workflow is to open a browser, a terminal, and then just use tabs within them. I always want to know other people's workflows! I'm sure for some people who need/want lots of windiwd open,", "context": "Linux user", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers"}, {"id": 740667153, "item_id": 46291697, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291697", "by": "BeetleB", "date": "2025-12-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used it until switching to AwesomeWM around 2011.", "excerpt": "I have fond memories of FVWM. I don't know where this was (Slashdot?), but back in the mid 2000's, someone posted a \"Why are people not using FVWM? It's one of the most flexible window managers?\", and linked to various people's FVWM setup. This led to a lot of folks (including me) switching to FVWM. I used it until switching to AwesomeWM around 2011. You can see some (fairly old!) screenshots here: https://fvwm-theme", "context": "", "use_case": "window manager", "switched_from": "FVWM", "story": "FVWM-95 (2001)"}, {"id": 736089681, "item_id": 46005605, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46005605", "by": "noobermin", "date": "2025-11-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I moved over from awesome to qtile as I really didn't use lua", "excerpt": "blast from the past. I moved over from awesome to qtile as I really didn't use lua probably a decade ago (and I still don't) but unfortunately, over the years, I did the boring thing and just stuck with the gnome 3 default installed by whatever distro I use. Does qtile work on fedora these days? Good to hear wayland support is coming along, I often miss tiling wms.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience"}, {"id": 734868512, "item_id": 45929282, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929282", "by": "CSDude", "date": "2025-11-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "then switched to awesomewm used it for years", "excerpt": "I used Xmonad for a while, then switched to awesomewm used it for years. It was good on a 1366x768 screen to use space efficiently.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager", "switched_from": "XMonad", "story": "Moving Back to a Tiling WM \u2013 XMonad"}]}