Luckily mcyoloswagham doesn't need you to accept it.

I quite like the look of it, I'll quite likely use it next time I need Windows for something more useful than gaming.

I was very rude in my comment. And I apologize.

But the fact stays: i3 is not solely about windows management. It is a major step forward in workspace management too.

Bringing to Windows all the i3 features in term of workspace management would (in my opinion) be the real game changer.

But I presume it is technically challenging.

Which WM/desktop manager do you use when you are not on Windows?

Depends on the machine.

I daily drive Gnome shell with the Pop_OS tweaks on my laptop. On a couple of other desktops (both at work and home), I use KDE, i3, and Sway.

I've played around with XFCE, enlightenment, vanilla GNOME as well.

Which one I use highly depends on the usecase of the machine.

Pop_Shell is a nice all-rounder, it's got decent tiling, decent defaults, Jack-of-all-trades, master of none feel.

KDE is nice for machines I share with others, and when I just use a machine occasionally for light work/gaming. I also like it for machines that I do graphics work on, as A) Krita is a KDE app, and B) GIMP/Krita don't play with tiling very well, and I forget to turn it off in Pop!_Shell. Yes that's my fault. Yes it's still a factor.

I like i3/Sway for doing actual work in, especially with regards to ops and development work.

XFCE was fine, not my favorite, but it did the job. Ditto for enlightenment.

Vanilla GNOME is a nightmare. I can't stand it.

I am surprised, given your very reasonable experience, that you do not highly praise the flexibility of i3 workspace management.

Honestly, I've never had a need for it.

I've done deep dives into software as I've needed it, and even just the very surface level of familiarity with i3 was plenty to get enough of a performance boost that the WM was not what was limiting my productivity. At that point, why spend more time optimizing it?

I did daily drive it for a while on my laptop, and highly enjoyed being able to set up workspaces complete for different uses at the touch of a button, but I don't need that days, and didn't do much useful work when I did use it.

Edit: A big part of this is that the machines I use i3/Sway on these day's are really just single purpose machines that I don't do enough different things on to justify refreshing workspace management in my head. I find just being able to sanely open/manipulate open terminals is enough.

Given the asynchronicity of developer's life, I usually create a workspace for any microtask I have. And the workspace/microtask automatically dies whenever it no longer contains any window. Even looking for information on stack overflow is now a workspace in my workflow. (Because workspaces are so cheap).

After some weeks living like this, i see that some microtask survive for a surpisingly long time, and my workspace management has evolved into a kind of poor's man task manager.

The fantastic side-effect of a workspace tied to a task is that the windows, history, URLs are ready to use instantly. Which makes cognitive load when task switching a breeze.