For you (this is my arch comp - but my EOS looks the same) sysinfo script - my monitor workspace and a rofi screenie
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Pretty neat, I think Iāll give it a try later on my home laptop.
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excellent - my work here is done 
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Indeed. It makes me hungry, as well! Are you new to Tiling Managers?
Beautiful, what theme are you using here?
Thank You
just some custom terminal color scheme
what terminal do you use?
I thought it was an XFCE theme! 
Could you share your colour values? sakura and guake would look great in them.
I would only try Gentoo for the same reason you would try LFS, for the learning experience. In fact, I was trying to install it on hardware and not a VM. There is also Sabayon for those whom like Gentoo without the compiling and want a more out-of-the-box experience. I donāt see the need for that if thereās already Arch. They are definitely not as ābleeding edgeā as Arch, from what I understand.
LFS is also something Iām interested in learning. What I like about it is that you can customize your own distro using it. Customizing my own distro is a project I would love to do. I never knew the tools to use to do it!
Itās great you found your home. That is important, as it is something to be proud of using. Customization is what I love about Linux in general.
For terminals, I tend to use Termite, by the way. What about yours? 
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sure - i use termite as my terminal of choice so you have to convert it yourself
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No, Iām using i3wm for ~1 yr, so I know that it may suit my needs. Actually when I switched to EOS i decided to give xfce a try for the first time. Well, itsā somehow working for me, but as long as Iāll have configured similar shortcuts as in i3 for moving windows,workspaces etc. Goal is to eliminate mouse usage - sheās a distraction! 
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I truly dislike rodents. I use xbanish to hide my cursor too
Thatās awesome! Iām also trying to eliminate the mouse as much as possible. Itās one of the reasons I like VIM more than even Sublime Text. VIM has default key bindings already out-of-the-box and had it from the start. Donāt get me wrong, Sublime Text has itsā place for most people, however both VIM and EMACS are free (āfree as in free beerāā¦or sweet tea in my case)!
It seems I may be going to ArcoLinux for ability to install multiple desktop environments. I didnāt realize he had scripts to do this very thing and he recommended ArcoLinuxD for multiple desktop environments.
Additionally, you can learn how to create your own custom DE and experience WMs through his videos. It was under my very toes!
All of your responses have been great. I donāt know whom to mark as the solution, as all answers were good responses.
@anon77235960: I will keep in touch about the WMs you mentioned. I still have Endeavour OS in a VM to experience and simply can transfer the VHD file over.
Once I learn and experience different WMs, I still may go with the idea of having a tutorial series for basic to advanced WMs and offer it on a site. The key point will be productivity workflow. Not to mention, you can learn even more by being a teacher! Somebody once in my life noted I could be a good teacher, however I never vibed well with what to teach. Perhaps she was just trying to encourage meā¦who knows?!!
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Good luck with that! 
Iām using urxvt, I found it really annoying to configure through .Xresources file, and a bit annoying sometimes, but in the end itās the lightest terminal emulator, and it really matters to me while in job Iām using like 20-30 active windows at a time.
@anon77235960
I just installed plain bspwm yesterday, logged in and I did it the IT guy way - install & run & see what happensā¦ Surprise, bspwm launched, nothing on screen except for wallpaper, donāt know what to do 
Thats a proper WM! 
Next time Iāll give some time for reading the docs.
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Good Luck with Erik and his vision of Arch. Not my cup of tea but I do understand why you would choose something like that.
@patryk
Iāve used it for years myself - itās a good terminal but I got tired of font issues with urxvt -and swithed to termite- it does the job
For your next try on bspwm remember itās a bashscript - so you have to chmod +x the example file and copy it over to your .config/bspwm/bspwmrc. Otherwise youāll have nothing working and the same goes for sxhkd ofc
YOu can look at this
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I forgot to ask you earlier what you meant by 20-30 active windows? Is that considered a lot? I mean are those active windows running some heavy electron programs?I often have like 38-45 terminals open runnning different programs + an open browser with 20-30 tabs. I need more monitors so I can have more space 
I think youāve just proven that itās not a lot I meant terminal windows, not heavy programs, and for example I noticed that konsole was eating a bunch of ram with that workload. Sometimes those terminals are flowing tons of text per second (scientific software compilation - nasty thing) and I donāt like to redirect output to file, because I feel like I donāt control the process (which is silly )
Browser is my biggest pain in the ass, if there wouldnāt be javascript or flash content Iād use links and feel happy with thatā¦ Iām dealing with two monitors and 10 workspaces each - I find it just enough for my workflow 
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I wonder if thatās because they have a MFC like bloat in their software. Doesnāt Konsole use QT?
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I completely agree on the browser thing. Iāve lived with only tty for a month but it was nice to actually come back to a normal browser again. There was so many different issues on certain sites. Other than that I was pretty happy with tmux in tty
This site sums the browser issues these days:
(sorry for the language! CHILDREN INAPPROPRIATE!)
Nasty link
Btw. I just gave a shot with termite, I love the simplicity of config file, human readable! Nice. Maybe Iāll work with it some more later on, and see if itās any good for me.
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