It can be both. I'm daily driving FVWM, which is even older than IceWM and still under active development. I'm fine with people thinking it's "retro", because it is. But mostly I'm happy I can still use it.

Incidentally, tiling WM:s are even more retro, even if they're all the rage right now. GNU Screen and Oberon are both from 1987.

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jjtheblunt 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

i used FVWM on my sparc Solaris and other unix workstations in the late 90s...awesome to see it's still actively developed. loved it. now i'm using hyprland as its configurability reminds me of being able to set up ergonomics in my own personally favored ways.

anyway, just a data point after happily seeing your comment.

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arcanemachiner 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm confused, isn't GNU Screen a terminal multiplexer?

	▲	yjftsjthsd-h 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		screen is a terminal multiplexer that at some point added the ability to split the terminal in a tiling manner, but that's a lot more recent than 1987