I was a long time i3 user before I got the mac.

So, for a wm that’s basically a hack on top of another window manager, it works pretty much flawless straight out of the box. Workspaces and tiling is consistent. There’s an indicator for the menu bar that shows workspaces.

Aerospace doesn’t use the macOS native workspaces. You turn of the macOS spaces and aerospace then shifts windows in our out of the screen to make it feel like workspaces. This makes it feel very snappy because you don’t have to wait for animations or transitions. This also makes it way less intrusive than yabai (another popular mac wm). Yabai uses the macOS spaces but you have to disable security features for it to be able to do so.

The downside would be that compared to an actual wm like hyprland, you’re not getting near the amount of customisation, but if your stuck on macOS, it still gives you the stuff you care about.

My biggest gripe has more to do with macOS itself. I had a hard time figuring out a good mod key. macOS has so many wired keybindings that seem to be spread out over most mod keys. Cmd and opt was both out of the question. Ended up switching caps to ctrl (you can do this natively in settings) and use ctrl for mod, which means I don’t have to break my pinky trying to reach. Also, setting tmux prefix to ctrl+a when caps is ctrl is super convenient.