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It's really hard to separate the potential for a midlife crisis, wistful nostalgia for my youth and pragmatism.
I have a variety of Unix-y systems running, almost exclusively using Mwm (the Motif window manager). Having been an i3 user for a long time, the way that I mainly use my Unix environments has changed a lot and I need the tiling aspects a lot less, while the keyboard driven parts are an inconvenience and not a boon.
I mostly use Linux via VNC sessions from my Windows, Mac or ChromeOS (also a Linux) machines. In basically every environment, passing the `meta` key through is hit or miss. As my client screen sizes vary, having every window default to full-screen isn't very helpful either.
(I will probably blog about this set up on my real blog -- I even use a loopback VNC server with Windows Subsystem for Linux and it works really well.)
Finally, as I've really leaned into `tmux` in the last year, including a reasonably nice tmux config which integrates with my vim window switching, I don't need to launch a lot of terminals and have my window manager stack them.
Of course, there's an element of retrocomputing with using Mwm. It's very very similar to the fvwm I used when I was a teenager. It's also the actual window manager I used on my DECstation when I got my first "real" Unix machine. (This was back when Linux was not considered a Unix -- something which is still technically true from the point of view of the family tree, but that I don't think people commonly care about like they did in the 90's).
Maybe a key observation is that there's not a lot of gap between retrocomputing (using older software, which was by necessity lighter) and the hipster-ish-but-in-a-good-way movement of writing small, tightly focussed software, like i3, aerc and the suckless tools.
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