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I did. Used i3 for a while, but between how slow adjusting window sizes were (I opened new windows often as part of my workflow), and how you can’t hide windows behind others I ultimately found it too limiting.

I did love the fact that all shortcuts started with the superkey though. That meant no overlap with any ide (I am looking at you, gnome).

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If I remember correctly, i3 has a stacking mode that lets you hide windows behind others.

Yup. Stacking is really useful sometimes.

Well you can configure shortcuts to quickly resize windows, and you can hide windows behind each other using tabbing or just different workspaces. I'm curious what your use case is for hiding windows behind each other though.

It was simply that I ended up with a lot of windows: an ide, a browser for the site I was building, the debugger for it (and I wanted to switch between them fast), my music app, the company mandated chat app, browser windows with google searches, file browsers, terminals and so on.

In the end it was much faster to use the switchers in more traditional managers like Gnome and while you can stack/tab windows they still take up space.

Finally, and I think most importantly, while I was using an ultrawide screen at the time, and it was definitely nice to be able to easily split it in two or three windows quickly, I mostly don't need a tileable screen.

Yeah it’s really hackable. That’s what I really like as well.

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