My first linux was RedHat3.X and I don’t remember which wm was used in it, but it was cool. No icons on desktop etc (I really don’t like them), just TaskBar and buttons (perhaps it was fvwm without proper configuration, I don’t know). I was young and linux was used by my for nice games like xevil or freeciv (I couldn’t find old version of xevil. New version is worse).
I’ve been using linux for other things since 1999, but machines which I use are much older In documentation of Zipslack (used on my older machine) I found some information about fvwm as a prefered WM for it. Some months ago I managed to install aurox on my P200 (“newer” machine) and I needed something what was ‘light’ enough for my machine. I compiled fvwm not earlier than 2 months ago, and I recognized some things from my first wm (like start->documents->rootdir… yeah that is great)
and now answer for question ‘why??’
1 Fvwm doesn’t eat so much space on disk and it is light for processor. ‘Ugly’ configuration didn’t scary me, only violet background was disgusting
2 mouse gestures - It is very nice (Stroke 456 0 R N Exec exec halt )
3 thing which I saw in older linuxes called ‘disk navigator’ (start->documents->rootdir)