We use this on some graphical Debian servers at work. I hate it. The servers are beefy and the displays have high resolitions. There is no technical reason for having to use IceWM. Our 63-year-old veteran colleague simply likes it and blocks suggestions to move to a modern minimal WM. There are better options in big 2026. I cannot wait until he retires, so that we can retire IceWM.

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realusername a day ago | parent [-]

What are the better options? I've been out of the game for a while and just been using Gnome.

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Scharkenberg a day ago | parent | next [-]

There are about 300 people working daily on these servers. I'm team "enlightenment" and got about 50 people supporting me. There is the i3/sway camp (30ish people), there is the dwm camp (10-15 people), and there is the "please anything with modern UX at all" (estimate: 200 people).

	▲	thom a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I remember at university, we'd all log into our remote X sessions at the start of a lesson. I used blackbox back then which zipped along quite happily, but 30 people all trying to boot up KDE 3 at once rarely went well. I'd say careful what you wish for, but I assume modern servers can handle this better.
	▲	Evidlo 17 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I've used i3 every day for >10 years but I would never advocate for my whole org to switch to it. That sounds crazy. Gnome3 please.

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oddIdentities a day ago | parent | prev [-]

dwm may be worth a look: https://dwm.suckless.org/