On 1/18/2011 12:17 PM, Drmgiver wrote: > So, I have spent many years with Ubuntu, but I just recently fell in > love with WindowMaker. Learning a bit about it I have found out that it > isn't used very often any longer. But I am curious if anyone out there > knows of any distro who uses it by default? To me, it's almost a little incongruous to think of a classic window manager like Window Maker (or JWM, TWM, or my preferred FVWM, etc) as a "default" distribution component, since all of these act independently of the desktop integration aimed at by popular modern distributions. Puppy Linux uses (at my last encounter, ca 4.0) JWM as a default. If you uncheck the gnome box when installing Red Hat, you'll fall back to TWM. Instead, the classic bare window managers represent what I like most about running Linux. They are components as much as is your web browser or mail client, but usually invite (or require, in the case of FVWM) a very deep level of customization on which to fine-tune one's work environment. That's what I see as a poor fit for distributions in general -- a distribution, pretty much by definition, makes decisions about software inclusion to address either a very specific set of needs, or more commonly the most general set possible. In either case though, it's directed at specific/broad *groups of users*. In contrast, the classic window managers are better suited to selection & use by an individual who really understands his or her specific needs, keyboarding habits, window arrangement preferences, etc. My $0.02, +++++++++++++++++ Michael Berkowski Minitex / MnLINK Linux Systems Administrator and Programmer University of Minnesota 612.625.8736 mjb at umn.edu PGP Public key: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~berk0081/pgp/pubkey.asc +++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110118/ec2c3bac/attachment.pgp