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I used XMonad with work-issued Linux desktop for a few years in the office at $day_job.

Most apps worked well with it, but some applications (Spotify, especially) have constraints on window size that cause it to overlap outside its tiled location. Worked around it by e.g. making it a floating window on top of the tiles.

Main reason I switched off was that it was unsupported by IT -- I found I would lose work time trying to update my setup with whatever new thing they had inherited from upstream Ubuntu LTS (network manager applet, or moving remote desktop to a separate X server, or systemd, or a new login manager). If we weren't WFH I would probably revisit it now that we're on Debian

Also the config is Haskell -- as someone who learned Scheme in University but didn't know any Haskell I got by copying and pasting snippets from around, but it was a lot of trial and error. Learning Haskell would make it a lot easier to code the environment to avoid needing to manually manipulate windows, similar to how emacs folks have all sorts of custom setups inside emacs.