bspwm
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
0warn against
Nov 14, 2025first mention
Mar 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“For graphical programs I prefer using a simple window manager like bspwm on X, and niri on Wayland.”
command line useron “The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager 1 mention
- The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe 1 mention
- Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups 1 mention
- The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience 1 mention
- Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad 1 mention
Also written as BSPWM. Data: bspwm.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“It reminds me of the philosophy of bspwm/sxhkd which I used for years on X11.”
“For graphical programs I prefer using a simple window manager like bspwm on X, and niri on Wayland.”
“I haven't switched to wayland yet, and still use BSPWM”
“moved on to bspwm, and now niri”
“it had really nice I3, bspwm, and xmonad distributions.”