(Sort of) in the same vein, I've recently started using xmonad as my window manager and so far it's a lot more comfortable than the Ubuntu default. You may need to learn a teeny but of Haskell to get up and running, but so far I've been OK copy-pasting from sample configs and muddling through.
When I bought a new Macbook and wasn't able to run linux, XMonad was really the only thing I missed. No matter how much Apple focuses on it's interface and making it easy to use, it's still incredibly slow and unintuitive to me.
