IceWM
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
0warn against
Dec 6, 2025first mention
Sep 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Debian/Ubuntu/Arch with IceWM or Fluxbox (or the like) works great.”
“A simple "IceWM" WM (I use the tiling "Awesome WM" but that's too radical for my wife) and she loves it.”
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“before switching to IceWM because it was more fun to configure”
switched from ratpoisonon “Emacs is my new window manager (2015)”
“I use mostly IceWM these days.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
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- Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC, put Linux on it 1 mention
- Emacs is my new window manager (2015) 1 mention
- Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) 1 mention
Data: icewm.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
“Debian/Ubuntu/Arch with IceWM or Fluxbox (or the like) works great.”
“A simple "IceWM" WM (I use the tiling "Awesome WM" but that's too radical for my wife) and she loves it.”
“I use icewm typically”
“before switching to IceWM because it was more fun to configure”
“I use mostly IceWM these days.”