[linuxdaemon]

I have used gnome pretty much since Fedora/RedHat started packaging it. For the past 2 years or so, I have been using Material Shell (https://material-shell.com/) which gives Gnome tiling functionality and I have been really happy with the overall experience.

But, just recently, a co-worker mentioned Sway. I have to use things that prevent me from using Wayland, so I decided to give i3 a try after touching it and not understanding it many years ago.

The point of my WM life story is, that after all that, I have stuck with i3 for about 3 weeks now and am falling in love with it. There were some gnome things that I missed, but was able to quickly piece things together to get the functionality I wanted. Being a vi guy also, I really like using modes for my keyboard shortcuts too. It definitely helps with my productivity (when I'm not playing with things to increase my productivity anyway :) )

[NoGravitas]

I had various bugs when I used Material Shell, but I did like several things about it, and I should probably give it another try. The Pop! OS shell extension is another good choice for mixing tiling with GNOME.

[cowtools]

Sway has some reverse compatability via XWayland. I am curious, is there any feature in particular keeping you on a native X11 desktop?

[linuxdaemon]

Specifically I am forced to use the horrible disaster that is MS Teams for work. So far, screensharing on Wayland with electron-based apps doesn't work.

[candiddevmike]

Wayland has some weird issues with screen sharing IME. The last time I used Google Meet with Wayland on Debian no one could see my screen.

[psalminen]

This issue has been resolved for me for about 6 months, but YMMV obviously.