I half agree. I used the tiling window manager i3 for about a year, then gnome for the past two years. I really do like to move windows around and arrange them,

I half agree. I used the tiling window manager i3 for about a year, then gnome for the past two years. I really do like to move windows around and arrange them, it feels sort of tactile. I like the simple extensibility of i3 - even as a novice programmer it was possible for me to add new features and even build my own custom python bindings to add more nuanced controls. After a while i3 did become a sort of second brain and it felt like I could keep various domains of life separate very effectively when I was going to school reading and writing a lot, working part time at a job that required lots of terminal windows, and doing my leisure computing all on the same machine. Life has changed and I no longer have a need for balancing all that stuff at once and my window management needs are simpler, a handful of browser windows mostly. When things get complex gnome is only about 50% as good as I need it to be to manage many things going on at once, though. Alt-tab application switching is a trash paradigm that is terrible no matter the OS.