There are a lot of excellent options like XFCE and some others, but all of them seemed very outdated in terms of their underlying technology for 2020 (though being more stable at the same time, from what people shared on forums).Ī good friend of mine (and a huge Linux advocate) had suggested me to try out i3wm (a Tiling WM - more on that later) some time back and I quickly dismissed that option at that time because I wasn't convinced about having a keyboard-driven WM. I then started to look for a lightweight Window Managers (WM's) to replace Gnome with something more stable and easy on the memory. At one point I was considering buying more RAM for my laptop just because this was becoming a daily nuisance for me. And also there is this nagging feeling as a developer that there has to be some sort of a memory leak somewhere, because of which this process keeps increasing in size every few hours. On a 16 GB that's a huge amount especially when my Android IDE, Emulator, Browser and 5 other things are all fighting each other for the already vanishing sweet piece of RAM pie. It's always fine after a fresh start or reboot at the beginning of the day with around 500-600 MB of usage but by sunset, my usage generally climbs upwards of 1.1 GB. I stuck to the non-LTS release starting from 19.04 and then upgraded to 19.10, but all this while one thing that bothered me a lot was the amount of RAM being consumed by the Gnome Window Manager. I like to keep things simple and stick to the defaults as much as possible (as much as I would love to customize the hell out of things, sadly I don't have that kind of time nowadays) and after distro-hopping for a while, I was happy to use stock Ubuntu.
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