I like the windows/kde style window navigation and always have a touchpad, not always a mouse. I’ll generally use what the system offers with some requirements:

1. Changing between windows should be deterministic with no need to look at the screen
2. You should be able to do as much as possible from each input method (keyboard/touchpad/mouse) but not require combining them for an action
3. You should be able to do “emergency” actions (like locking or sound control) one-handed

Some general preferences:

• Single desktop
• Dock and top panel always visible, no fullscreen apps unless it’s a video
• Keyboard+touchpad shortcut to change between windows (not apps)
• Shortcut to bring up specific app from dock
• Touchpad shortcuts for sound and brightness control
• Shortcuts for moving windows between screens and snapping them to the sides

KDE and gnome can be configured for all of the above. Windows already does most of it. MacOS breaks almost everything and is surprisingly hard to configure (I don’t understand how it’s considered good ui). I haven’t tried tilling managers, they’ll probably pretty usable too.

Just keep in mind that method names can also get stale and you have to be extra careful there because, when reading the parent method, you only see the method name without the code alongside it.

I like the concept of reduce and in many cases a different implementation is not necessarily more readable. But I hate how I have to look up the syntax every time, in every language I’ve written. I don’t know if that’s a me problem though.