Tiling window managers are not the silver bullet they are often made out to be IMO. I used tiling window managers for quite a while — two years at least, maybe

Tiling window managers are not the silver bullet they are often made out to be IMO. I used tiling window managers for quite a while — two years at least, maybe even for four years. There are several factors that made me abandon tiling window managers. The main thing though is that I look at and work in a lot of different combinations of windows. And often multiple of those windows are big enough that they wouldn’t tile together. But with floating windows I can easily drag them around so that the parts of current concern within each window are visible and I have a total overview. When I was using tiling window managers I used to believe that I was being smart and efficient by doing so. It turned out for me that actually floating windows give me more freedom. What matters, I found out, is not how efficiently I can pack windows on the screen to avoid “wasted space” (as tiling window managers help you do), but how easily I can rearrange arbitrarily windows to give me the total picture I need while I am thinking.