On: Ask HN: What laptop do you use?

[yoran]

Same here. I vary across distributions, going from OpenSUSE to Ubuntu to Fedora back to Ubuntu, but XFCE is the only constant there. I spend my day switching between the command line and a browser so XFCE is just what I need as a desktop environment.

[houst0n_ → yoran]

My workflow is very similar. I think you might get some benefit from a tiling wm. I use DWM personally, but you might want to check them out