I've been using Ratpoison and StumpWM for almost 15 years. They really hit the sweet spot for me. I don't even need to configure them, beyond changing the font

I've been using Ratpoison and StumpWM for almost 15 years. They really hit the sweet spot for me. I don't even need to configure them, beyond changing the font and maybe adding one or two extra key bindings. I only rarely use the splitting function; mostly, I work with one window per monitor. I've worked for years on a laptop like this. Now I have two external displays and my laptop display. The main one in front of me usually shows Emacs; a vertical one on the side shows a terminal or two.