I actually came here to recommend i3-wm. If you've never used a tiling window manager or used one but it didn't really work out,I suggest you give it a try.

Looks nice. I use xmonad when I'm on linux, and I think I might prefer the simplicity and structure.

The tabbed windows looks very useful though.

I just realized I called it "tiling WM", but I use tabbed windows more than tiling features.

I tend to have one main stack of tabbed windows on each workspace, out from which I "push" a window or two to create splits whenever I want to display multiple things at the same time.

I have some workspaces that are tabbed (that's typically the case where I'm using a browser), some that are tiled, and some that use both -- usually involving a tab group in one tile and one or more other tiles on the same workspace.

I guess the ability to mix tabs with tiles (in whatever arrangements I want) is what keeps me using i3 instead of others. I'd love to get dwm's tags with i3's tabs and tile management.

Sometimes I feel a bit strange using i3 on Ubuntu (which has put so much work into Unity). I believe i3 was written to solve the use cases of developers, and so maybe that's why I often feel the choices the creators made just seem to make so much sense.

Trying out a tiling window manager was the "last straw" that pulled me off OSX and back onto Linux. It started with Xmonad, but I've settled on i3 for the same reasons as you.

i3, the tiling window manager after which I stopped trying out other tiling window managers.

Same for me, and not only because its author (Michael Stapelberg) was always nice enough to answer my questions on IRC. Great Software, great support.

My last stop was XMonad, an year ago. Since then I have not changed my wm.

I think I went through almost all of them :-)

A lot have the master window concept like XMonad which I do not like.

I love i3, been using it for over a year after using dwm for about 1.5 (and trying many others). Now for me, it's setup up borderless with a hidden bar, I'm not much for fancy extras. And the multimonitor support is great too.

i3: instant productivity. Failed as an Awesomewm user, but now rocking i3 with dual-monitors; a developers' dream. The only thing remaining from my Ubuntu Unity install is gnome-settings-daemon.

i3 is the best tiling wm I've ever used.

i3 is really quite good, have been using it for several months now.

Not completely over the moon with i3 (some annoyances), but it's the best tiling WM I've come across to date; it's actively maintained, so should get better and better with time ;-)

same here