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Unity stamped over a bunch of my keyboard shortcuts, so I took the opportunity to learn xmonad (with gnome classic) and haven't looked back.

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XMonad is great. For anyone who finds it a bit daunting I recommend Bluetile[1]. It's a great introduction to the best window management system I've used (I really miss XMonad on OS X.)

[1] http://www.bluetile.org/

I have a Linux, OS X, and Windows machines on my desk (for doing cross-platform development of Firefox). XMonad is definitely my preferred WM for getting things done. OS X and Windows both have attempts at nice features, but they feel so frustrating to use in comparison.

Lion actually improved that a lot: Fullscreen apps integrated with Spaces gives a large part of what I use X<onad for. If they'd combined that with Windows 7's snapping of windows to half-screen, that would cover 75% of my XMonad usage. It's really a shame that XMonad is Linux-only. (Or that Firefox users expect Windows&OSX ports, depending on your perspective).

I use Sizeup under osx to get window snapping via keyboard shortcuts. It also gives you a set of shortcuts to throw the current window to different desktops.

I run xmonad and was under the impression bluetile had been merged back into xmonad proper... no?

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