I use hyprland. And I navigate with ALT+? commands for the main apps I use, and alt+tab strictly to go back to previous workspace. I also have a task bar that I can also click to navigate when I need (on waybar). I love it. I'm never in some intermediate state like a view of all my workspaces, or holding alt tab to choose some workspace - it's always a single hotkey stroke. I also have 3 special workspaces that use alt+scroll-up/scroll-down/middle-mouse-button-click, for my password manager, my dashboard, and my music (strawberry).

I encourage everyone using the ubuntu/windows paradigm to check this out instead. Windows users see me working and their jaws drop, because it's so fast and smooth.

If anyone's curious I use ALT+: e for file manager (thunar), w for chrome, a for whatsapp, x for terminal, c for claude web, y for youtube, n for a notepad-style program, d for launcher (fuzzel), t for sublime, z for emacs, v for clipboard history, f for full screen, q to kill active and f1 for a emacs capture-dialog. g sends a window to a ws on my main monitor, and alt+shift+g sends it to secondary monitor.