considering that gnome just deprecated X11, i have a weird feeling that my life is about to get even harder and more painful, unless I choose to conform to one of the mainstream ideal linux GUIs

wayland will be the thing which finally kills all the small WMs that still remain. I consider that to be a cultural disaster.

@domi https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-window-management/ was making the rounds recently and I'm so glad somebody is finally fixing this
Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager

@23n27 @domi he gave a talk about this at FOSDEM and it was super good
@janvhs @domi I was at FOSDEM and somehow I still only found out about the talk through that post :(