I'm a big fan of tiling WMs. Even though in the past I did try GNOME/KDE, I never really sticked because I wanted a more bare-bones experience to learn how to configure the system via command line.

At first, I tried i3, then switched to dwm as using a real programming language for configuration felt more liberating. Unfortunately, it also didn't work out because I quickly stumbled upon patches incompatibilities and it was a nightmare to debug.

As a result, here I am, running AwesomeWM. Getting used to millions of keybindings was painful, but it was certainly worth it because nobody can use my computer now to me it's really convenient to do everything with a keyboard.