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Comment by mpaepper | Hacker News Reader

Wow, does something like this exist for Ubuntu as well?

There's a bunch of things like i3wm. But I have to give a big warning. These are very addictive and you'll go down rabbit holes making your system beautiful and easy to use (for you and absolutely no one else) that you may lose lots of productivity (well... work productivity?). So caution, do not visit /r/unixporn and do not search tools like picom and rofi. Sure, the life looks glamorous but it is an addiction worse than MTG or Warhammer, albeit cheaper. Fuck it, who am I kidding, go for it.

It took a long time to get it there, but my current config hasn't changed significantly in ~5 years, and it works very effectively

Same, this is something they don't tell you. That the rabbit hole does have a bottom, and it's really comfortable down there!

I use xmonad as a tiling wm, which I guess is quite similar to i3, but what I mean is that you can control all apps with vim like experience a la vimium. For example controlling gimp with vim key bindings. Does i3wm support that?

It sounds like this app for windows does that.

Programs that highly rely on their GUI are probably not the best for vim-like binds, imo they're the exception. And even if you did want that, you'd need a whole reimplementation from the program itself, to include modes.

This sounds a bit like it. Haven't tried it yet, though.

https://github.com/phil294/vimium-everywhere

i3wm might be what you're looking for.

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