The beauty in Linux is also the freedom to simplify your workflow as much as you want, and not use the tools you don't need. I've decided to only use a tiling

The beauty in Linux is also the freedom to simplify your workflow as much as you want, and not use the tools you don't need. I've decided to only use a tiling WM for all window/pane management, and stop using anything else, as much as possible. So I abandoned Gnome3->Terminator->tmux in favor of bspwm->urxvt. I don't lose the functionality that I had before (tiling terminals), and I'm using much lighter-weight tools and less of them. I love it. Oh, and as for editor tiling... Yeah, I still have to tile buffers in Vim/Emacs, but only because I prefer the editing workflow in that case (all my context / session / environment remains the same). I suppose I could have lightweight clients, but I haven't really looked into it.