Power User definition

> Justification doesn't enter into it. It's a emotional response, not a rational one

This is where I think you're wrong: Sometimes it's both. Dismissing all criticism as an irrational and emotional reaction to change is unhelpful. I understand that it gets frustrating to be constantly on the receiving end of bitching from people like me; try not to let it get to you.

> What I find amazing is that more people don't realize that being incredibly anally retentive about the positioning and arranging of windows among their desktops is a trained behavior (on a almost unconscious level) that is the result a significant design flaw in their desktop/window manager.

Curiously enough I have been running with mostly-maximized as my model for many years and I abuse virtual desktops heavily to make this work. I observe the following behaviors as a result:

* No matter what my "application" is for the current desktop I will always, sooner or later, also open an xterm that mostly sits behind the "main" window and alt-tab to it as needed.
* On some desktops my "application" is really a task involving multiple applications and in those cases they're never maximized.
* Max-width and especially max-height are usually all the window tweaking you need when not running maximized.
* Alt tab needs to be single-desktop, otherwise the list is crazily long.
* More desktops==better task isolation==better productivity.
* I almost never spend time tweaking window size or position.
* In the GIMP I'm always tweaking window size and position.

For some reason I also notice that settings-type windows seem hostile when they use the whole screen. I'm not sure why.