I never felt speed was the primary reason for me to use i3wm (or my preferred tiled WM awesomewm). It just felt more convenient. I never had to worry about plac

I never felt speed was the primary reason for me to use i3wm (or my preferred tiled WM awesomewm). It just felt more convenient. I never had to worry about placing windows, which just removes a bunch of cognitive load. I want half a dozen terminals open (hell, make it a dozen) but I want to be able to see all of them? It's automatic. I want to open a document and a browser next to it? Automatic. I want a video in the corner, some terminals in their own corner and browse the net on the other half of my screen? Automatic. Couple that with virtual desktops and it becomes second nature to create context-specific desktops, and switching between projects with minimal overhead is just how things are. I think my interfacing with my computer is infinitely worse now that I currently don't use Linux on a daily basis and so don't have access to that kind of well-implemented tiling anymore. Also, while tiling WMs are overall an immense joy, none of them are desktop environments and in most distros there's a lot of fiddling to get a tiling wm to function remotely as well as a standard DE (I used to use the awesomewm flavor of Manjaro, which hasn't been maintained in years, unfortunately).