XMonad
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Nov 14, 2025first mention
Nov 14, 2025latest mention
Why people recommend it
“It's definitely quick as heck and I like how compact the codebase is for edits.”
“The reason I switched to XMonad over a decade ago was actually so that I could have a tiling window manager but still have all the normal desktop environment conveniences.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad 4 mentions
Also written as xmonad. Data: xmonad.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“It's definitely quick as heck and I like how compact the codebase is for edits.”
“The reason I switched to XMonad over a decade ago was actually so that I could have a tiling window manager but still have all the normal desktop environment conveniences.”
“it had really nice I3, bspwm, and xmonad distributions.”
“I used Xmonad for a while”