Window Maker Live

Reader supplied reviews for Window Maker Live Average rating 9.0 from 4 review(s) What are your thoughts on Window Maker Live? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 0.96.0-00.95.7-40.95.6-22013.06.05 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 0.96.0-0 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-01-18 Votes: 3 I installed it expecting to experience some nostalgia. I used to use "Window Maker" when I was young. To my surprise, the experience was not just nostalgia but a complete desktop experience. This software has evolved to provide every comfort of a today's wordkflow. There is a system tray, a task manager, a handy dock panel, the mouse wheel works everywhere, easy and customizable. The memory footprint is extremely small for what it provides. I like that it includes the vintage WMapplications but they aren't as useful today.Maybe I'll keep some of them for some basic tasks because they're so fast and small that I can run thousands of them spending almost zero system recourses. As a system, it is a Debian Bookworm, it works, plenty of sofware, plenty of documentation, standard and solid GNU/Linux Distro, very good support everywhere. Kudos to the developers!!!! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 0.95.9-0 Rating: 6 Date: 2023-10-06 Votes: 2 I currently use Window Maker, on MX Linux 21. WM is my favorite window manager and prefer it to any desktop. I have missed Window Maker Live and am glad to see it is back. I have just installed it, however it only includes the Debian graphical and expert installs. Since the expert is too detailed for my needs, I used the graphical installer which has missing settings that are found in the Debian text install. What is missing is completing the system name, as in: 'computer.something.com', only "computer" can be set. Although I could locate myself in North America, there was no option to set the timezone, thus my clock was inaccurate. There was no option to create a root account. Having installed Debian 12 recently, all those settings were available in the text install. I had to set these by hand. Upon updating the system via Synaptic, I found the "update menus" did not do so. Since I write my own WM menu, this is not a big deal for me. I will continue using WML, however, I do think the original WML did not have these issues. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 0.95.9-0 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-27 Votes: 1 Ok, this might just be crazy overkill. I'm running Window Maker Live on a Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro 14-Gen7. This is a monster of a 14" laptop with 20 cores, 2TB nvme disk and 64GB memory. I have never, ever seen anything as fast as this. Launching e.g. google-chrome takes about 1/5th of a second from I click in the menu and until the browser window is open. Libreoffice takes about a second. This is from a freshly booted OS. Stability and ease of use is as always unparalleled, as one would expect from Window Maker. This new release comes with systemd, which just works. There are also a few other things that have been added. Only thing I've actually felt the need to install is pulseaudio, since alsa by itself doesn't work that well when you attach different docking stations etc. I've also removed a few of the preinstalled packages, but that's mostly because I use something else or I simply don't need their functionality. One really good thing is the integration of specific stuff from mate and xfce, this makes e.g. multi-monitor setups, keyboard layout changes on the fly etc. a bit easier. I've been using Window Maker on and off since the very first release, and this distro is a really good combination of an excellent OS and an excellent window manager. I can only recommend it, even for brand new computers. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 4 reader reviews of Window Maker Live...