Some KDE apps are nice, but I tend to find the UI to have too much bling for my tastes: it's distracting. But Konqurer and Krita are both excellent (although I

Some KDE apps are nice, but I tend to find the UI to have too much bling for my tastes: it's distracting. But Konqurer and Krita are both excellent (although I use firefox), and I've heard good things about Kate (although I'm an Emacs user). As for i3, yeah. It's actually a really nice system: you can do almost anything by keyboard although you only need to know five shortcuts ($mod+d, $mod+h, $mod+v, $mod+shift+q, and $mod+shift+e respectively), and there are a few other handy ones ($mod+enter, $mod+<number>). it's a really clean, and it just feels good to use. But it's really confusing to those who don't know it. I had a friend who tried to use my computer once... that was fun to watch.