Wayland

So while it is important to know how to use Gnome on a linux desktop, the fact is that it is not my favorite desktop environment for linux. It is far too “dumbed-down” and made mostly for the masses, and I tend to be more of a “power-user”.

In the past, I became a big fan of the I3 tiling window manager. It just fit the way that I work, and I found myself highly productive with it. But I3 was made to integrate with Xorg, and that was beginning to show its age, so the community has been working on a more modern replacement for X, being Wayland. But I3 doesn’t work with Wayland! The horror!