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A small suggestion regarding framing, you might find yourself getting a friendlier welcome if instead of putting other software down, you instead highlight why yours is good. For example, instead of saying i3 is bloated, you could say your project is more lightweight than i3. Similarly, instead of saying DWM is incomplete, you can say yours is more feature complete than DWM. It might feel like a small difference, but attitudes and first impressions matter, especially as you can see from the other comments in this thread. You don't have to put others down to lift yourself up.





Yeah this is good advice. You don’t bring yourself up by trash-talking others down.



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