Slightly off topic, but somewhat related as I happened to ack "i3" on this thread. I used to spend time configuring the hell out of xmonad and i3 until I reali

Slightly off topic, but somewhat related as I happened to ack "i3" on this thread. I used to spend time configuring the hell out of xmonad and i3 until I realized that life is too short not to use a window manager with sane defaults while treating both the keyboard and the mouse as first class citizens. wmii (for single monitor setups), cwm and dwm are good examples of that. Most mainstream desktops are also good. Windows is excellent out of the box and the contextual file manager offers an unmatched experience across all operating systems. OSX needs third party tools.