i've talked 2 friends through installing arch
working on 3
and so the infection continues to spread >:)

p.s. loving i3 oml

wait until you try NixOS ;)

Can somebody please explain what the fuck that i3 thing is? Everyone keeps mentioning it but all I find on the interwebs is BMW models, intel chips and desktops filled with nothing but terminals

@Froot i3wm.org

Oh cool. Is it better than the one built into gnome?

It's just another window manager afaik, like gnome or unity 🤔

@Jilano So it only works with terminals then?

@Froot no, you can use terminals to open applications and organize from there

@ParkCity Hmm ok. So no conventional desktop with icons and the like?

@Froot yup, no icons. and to start, no background image - you can set one though. you start out your time in session by opening up a terminal, and open other applications that way. there IS mouse support, in case you wanna browse the web, use a file manager, etc...

@Froot the Arch package is " i3 "
http://i3wm.org/

i'll post a reply with screenshots of what it looks like

@ParkCity Probablly not my cup of tea 😄
I'm quite happy with my gnome desktop