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Who uses, recommends or left Xmonad, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Phil Hagelberg
Programmer known as technomancy; author of Leiningen for Clojure and a maintainer of the Fennel Lisp language.
loved

I've also just switched away from stock GNOME to XMonad since I just kept hearing how it's become the canonical implementation of tiling done right. Now I'm wishing I had switched sooner; it makes the classic paradigm just seem so cumbersome in comparison.

His Uses This interview, arguing for software you can modify at runtime.

2012-01-25·usesthis.com ↗

Joey Hess
Free software developer; author of git-annex, etckeeper and ikiwiki, and a longtime Debian developer.
uses

I use the XFCE desktop environment, with the Xmonad window manager.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: a netbook-only, off-grid, solar-powered development setup.

2012-10-30·usesthis.com ↗

John MacFarlane
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of the pandoc document converter and the gitit wiki.
uses

I use Debian Squeeze with xmonad at work and OS X Lion at home.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview: the writing and programming setup behind pandoc.

2012-05-25·usesthis.com ↗

Ethan Schoonover
Designer and developer; created the Solarized colour scheme and the Kinkless task system that became OmniFocus.
uses

For instance, I can swipe on the screen to change Xmonad workspaces.

His written "Uses This" interview, from the designer who made Solarized.

2012-05-23·usesthis.com ↗

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