@GreenDragon - I’m definitely going to give Gentoo another try soon.
I use Awesome as my window manager. It’s similar in functionality to Xmonad. I was going to explain how awesome tiling window managers are, but GreenDragon took care of it 
. The fact that I have a “normal” amount of monitors doesn’t diminish the usefulness of the concept.
As far as I know Ratpoison isn’t actively developed anymore (I used to use it, then switched). It’s not like there is a shortage of tiling window managers though 
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Fvwm was my first window manager! Classic.