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I wouldn’t say they are for everyone. Personally, I love them. Once I’ve learned about them, I just saw a better/faster way to use my computer. I use a dynamic tiling window manager, that way I just don’t have to think about placing windows, they are placed automatically in a pattern I want. They also can be quite lightweight.

There are many types of window managers, manual tiling, dynamic tiling, scrolling. I even saw a mouse focused WM at some point. In the dynamic tiling there are even more subdivision with the different layouts offered or the different way workspaces are.

I tried a few on X11 before chosing qtile, then moved to Wayland, tried sway, but was more into hyprland which is arguably the most popular one on Wayland. Now I have Niri on my laptop and Mangowm on my desktop. Mango is by far my favourite now. It combines dynamic tiling and scrolling. There are even plans to add manual tiling too. A jack of all trade.

I have a surface go 3 and a surface pro 7. The first running cachyos, the second running arch. Both do run fine, but the pro 7 isn’t used much anymore. It used to do BSOD on Windows and on linux it just kernel freezes. Still, linux was a much better experience, except for the camera. The main issue with surfaces is the hardware. Highly prone to failure and not really repairable. I love the form factor as I prefer to use a split ergo keyboard, so a laptop keyboard isn’t useful to me, but I wouldn’t buy another as they aren’t good products long term imo.