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title: Fedora i3 Spin Magazine Article
tags: Fedora i3, i3-sig, magazine, article
description: Draft of the promotion article in the FM
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# Introducing the Fedora i3 Spin
Fedora 34 features the brand new i3 Spin. The [Fedora i3 S.I.G](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/i3/) have been working to bring this new spin, aimed to bring the popular i3wm tiling window manager both to novices and appealing to advanced users who prefer not to use a mouse, touchpad, or other pointing device to interact with their environment. This is Featuring lightweight applications for web browsing, text editing, and media playback, the Fedora i3 spin offers a complete experience with a minimalistic user interface.a lightweight environment, intended for poweruser, to all our users.
## The i3 Experience
The i3 window manager is designed and developed with powerusers and developers in mind. Our intention is to bring this experience to all users, giving them a lightweight environment, usable and extendable, and when people can just work.
## Design Goals
The Fedora i3 S.I.G works based in the [design goals](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/i3/design-goals/) that mark their way to do the things. These goals define what we have in mind when we decide what to include and how to tune or customize things inside the Fedora i3 Spin.
With those goals we came to some of the following packages:
### Firefox
[Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?redirect_source=firefox-com) is the default web browser choosen by the Fedora Project to be included in the different projects we shipped. That's why we choose this, even when it's not the more lightweight browser out there.
### Thunar
[Thunar](https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start) file manager is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. It's lightweight, fast, and full featured.
### Mousepad
[Mousepad](https://docs.xfce.org/apps/mousepad/start) text editor aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor. It's not a complete development environment, but powerfull enough to read code and highlight syntax.
### Azote
[Azote](https://github.com/nwg-piotr/azote) is a GTK+3-based picture browser and background setter. The user interface is being developed with multi-headed setups in mind. Azote also includes several colour management tools.
### network-manager-applet
nm-applet is a little front-end for NetworkManager, the program that allows you to control, configure and use your network, from wired to wireless, including VPN management.
## Get Fedora i3 Spin
Fedora 34 with i3wm is available for [download now](link here). For support, you can visit the #fedora-i3 channel on Freenode IRC or use the [Users Mailing List](https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users).