After trying i3 with xfce for a while, I've been meaning to take things a step further and use only a tiling window manager. Just the other day, Linux Mint Debian Edition crashed on another laptop, leaving it in an unbootable state.
Bad news — Linux Mint is now in my blacklist until further notice — but also an opportunity to try something new!
Since this laptop is quite old and has very modest hardware, I decided to go with the lightest window manager that I could find. And here's Debian 12 running dwm, dmenu, st and slstatus:
I'm still trying to figure out a lot of things that desktop environments provide out of the box, but I'm getting there. I'm happy that this old laptop can run as fast... I'm really enjoying tiling window managers!
I've also created a small script to take a screenshot and blur it, to use it for my lock screen with slock:
