Why are hiding WMs standard, and not tiling?(ie. ubuntu vs. xmonad)
mbrubeck: While I use xmonad and love it, I would have a hard time teaching my spouse (or parents, or child, or even most of my co-workers) how the layout and controls work."Normal" window managers have a nice "physical" interaction model that is fairly easy to grasp.  Click to bring a window to the front; click and drag to move it to the location and size that you want.