[Zhyl]

So I have no idea what the poster means by 'without any useless packages' but I can talk a little to why packaging i3 is good.

Firstly, I like i3. Of all the tiling Window managers I've tried it seems to be the best mix of minimal, easy to understand, easy to configure and brings all the benefits of tiling WMs in terms of workflow and aesthetics.

What i3 doesn't do out of the box is look very good or have many common tweaks and quality of life improvements. This is something where the i3 community spin of Manjaro [0] shines because it bakes all of this in and gives you a gorgeous, modern-looking WM as default.

Regolith [1] was the first attempt I saw at providing this out of the box, but I'd definitely be interested in ways and means of containerising configs and i3 setups so that they are more easily accessible and can be tried out more easily.

[0] https://manjaro.org/download/#i3 (Direct link is broken. Click 'Editions -> Community -> I3')

[1] https://regolith-linux.org/

[jplayer01]

After turning to Manjaro for my main distro, I feel like all the time I spent on trying to configure a base Arch install was totally wasted. The i3/awesome community editions are great - they are properly configured and setup with sane defaults and a minimum set of programs to ensure basic functionality you'd expect from your average OS (like wifi) works straight out of the box. I don't think I could go back to doing everything from scratch with Arch or even starting from Ubuntu (or other) where the default settings for i3/awesome are nigh unusable until you've sunk a significant amount of time into setting everything up.

[WhyNotHugo]

> So I have no idea what the poster means by 'without any useless packages'

Consider this targeted at Ubuntu users. Ubuntu out of the box has a huge amount of packages, and most packages have more dependencies than on "lighter" distros (anything optional is pulled in by default).

[GGfpc]

Maybe I'm missing something but there's no option for i3 in that Manjaro URL.

I currently use Regolith but I'm looking for something lighter but still doesn't force me to configure every single thing like battery or wifi.

[Zhyl]

Make sure that your browser is directing you to the URL which includes the '#'. If it doesn't, you can find it under 'community' flavours.

edit: nope, you're right it isn't working!

[jplayer01]

The link doesn't work. That's just the page for the official releases. You have to go to Editions at the top of the page -> Community -> i3.