Looks like i3-gaps support is basically done so I have no excuse not to switch over now. Good work SirCmpwn and everyone else who helped!
After that there's also the Nvidia proprietary drivers not supporting Wayland, but I'll be switching to a FOSS driver stack with AMD by the time 1.0 hits.
AMDGPU is really good now, and the parts that are proprietary (AMDGPU Pro) are eventually (hopefully) going to be folded into the FOSS side soon.
Recently I finally managed to get 4K at 60fps over HDMI 2.0a working on Linux. For some reason the Nvidia drivers (both) only advertised 4K at 30fps, where as on Windows it works out of the box. I had to manually add my monitors EDID (which is extracted from Xorg in the first place), and now I get 4K 60fps HDR.
I hope AMD continue their rejuvenation, as it’s good to see Intel and Nvidia have some competition again.
I wonder if because people had so many problems with it the developer chose to skip over it due to lack of demand. Surely there's a better way to implement it, but that way may break compatibility with i3. This is all speculation of course.
[1] https://i3wm.org/docs/layout-saving.html#_restoring_a_vertic...
I think in practice with as many workplaces as you like the most productive layouts on medium to small screens, which is to say most of them, is a number of workspaces each with a relatively simple layout and 1-3 windows only.
You can wrap the layout saving restoring functionality in a tiny bit of scripting to make it more useful on the fly. Basically the json isn't useful right from the rip because you have to manually uncomment whatever fields make a given window unique but a script can pretty much do that unless it requires a regex and window title to distinguish between 2 windows.
https://github.com/kgrossjo/hammerspoon-config
What's different for mine is that I use a single prefix key, that pops up a notification giving you information what you can do next, and then I press one of those keys. I don't need to move windows that often, so having to hit two keys is not a problem. And it prevents Hammerspoon from hogging too many key combinations.
I doubt I'll get permission to install it on the mac. The mac is super locked down.
Windows 8 was a decient compromise for me but I am in the tiny minority that liked the Windows 8 interface it was the closest thing to a tiled window manager.