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by Normal_gaussian 3571 days ago
A while ago I moved to Arch Linux and started using the i3, a tiling window manager. This is an unusual setup, and not one everybody likes.

I was surprised at how many GUI bugs there were in the stacks of the mainstream OS's when I had to work on some in the last few weeks.

If you are competent I recommend moving away from xubuntu, or at least its defaults. Take note of the programs you like and install them on the new system, or note the ones you don't and replace them. Swapping wm's is pretty common.

A tiling wm is not for everyone, and my job doesn't involve much mouse work, however when I have had to use GIMP and Inkscape they have worked pretty much perfectly in their fullscreen beauty.

But yeah. Not for everybody.