27 engineers on Hacker News describe using i3 first-hand: 15 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“Since I use web browsers for my work, I decided to go all in with i3. I don't regret that choice”
endorse · personal · 15 yr · simlevesque · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“so I can just use i3/sway keybindings everywhere”
endorse · personal · krupan · 2026-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried i3 before but it sometimes broke with certain apps and took way too much fiddling to configure.”
regret · personal · zaptheimpaler · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I even ran i3 in it for a bit but gave up on that because it didn't work well with dual monitors.”
regret · personal · nickjj · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using i3 for about six months or so now, and the biggest thing I've realized is that Alt+Tab”
endorse · personal · 0.5 yr · armoredkitten · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using i3 now for many years now and like it a lot.”
endorse · personal · ohlookabird · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I installed Arch plus i3 and it worked like a charm.”
endorse · personal · abetlen · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“i3 does this for me automatically, and requires absolutely no interaction from me to have them set up the way I want.”
endorse · personal · pmoriarty · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using i3 exclusively for about 5 years.”
endorse · personal · 5 yr · patwolf · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using i3 since 2012 and I love it. I've tried several different tiling window managers over the years, but I keep coming back to i3.”
endorse · personal · 8 yr · djsumdog · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“inspired by years of running i3 (and before that xmonad, ratpoison and others) on linux and freebsd.”
endorse · personal · gimboland · 2020-06-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“when I had an all-linux dev setup I remember i3 being pretty amazing.”
endorse · personal · mpwoz · 2020-04-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“That's what I run on my laptop, which is my main programming computer”
endorse · personal · mort96 · 2018-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“with i3 and a couple of scripts, he's able to boot up into a single-use environment and do what he wants”
endorse · personal · imode · 2016-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Switched window manager to i3, which is excellent, can't imagine going back to floating windows after i3.”
endorse · personal · hsitz · 2016-03-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I decided to move past it onto i3. I can't say I regret it at all.”
endorse · personal · hobarrera · 2015-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started with Ubuntu, and later switched to Arch with i3 (Tiling WMs are awesome).”
endorse · personal · rob05c · 2013-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In i3 I can use `rofi` to do the same.”
neutral · personal · t_mahmood · 2024-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm using Alpine, i3, and mostly w3m”
neutral · personal · schemescape · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“now using "i3-wm v4.21" as my main window manager on all computers”
neutral · personal · tux · 2022-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried tiling WMs for a while (first KWin and then i3 / Sway)”
neutral · personal · _qbjt · 2021-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using it for more than two years at work via remote desktop but I'd still choose xmonad if I were to run one locally”
neutral · production · 2 yr · yurlungur · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after trying i3, herbstluft, xmonad, qtile and a bunch of others.”
neutral · personal · imiric · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using sway for a year now and I like it more than i3.”
neutral · personal · globular-toast · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried i3 and a few others once but somehow never got into them.”
neutral · personal · chubot · 2019-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“i3, rxvt, and vim are where I spend most of my time.”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · intrepidhero · 2019-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use i3 and write most of my own utilities”
neutral · personal · pard68 · 2018-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?