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For me it's the opposite. I find floating window manager like Windows, MacOS, Gnome, Kde really inefficient at managing screen space. Even more now that we have
by boudin 6y ago
For me it's the opposite. I find floating window manager like Windows, MacOS, Gnome, Kde really inefficient at managing screen space. Even more now that we have big screens.
Tilling window managers for me brings a few things:
* Almost never require to resize or position a window, the window manager optimise the layout for you. It removes the constant needs of organizing window
* Combine with workspaces and multiple monitors makes working with a lot of windows so much easier
* Finally, and this is the most important win for me, it is easy to manage everything with a keyboard. Even the few times I need to resize windows, it's such a pleasure to resize all the windows of the current workspace in one go with a simple keyboard shortcut.
It takes a bit of time to get used to it, especially since most tilling window manager I've used require a bit of customisation to bet to my taste but once I've been used to it, going back to clicking on menus, moving things around with a mouse or a touchpad is just not possible. I find this so inefficient, exhausting and, first and foremost, something that should be avoidable.
- indymike 6y agoKDE actually can be a really nice tiling window manager. I use a script called Krohnkite. You can even turn off window decorations if you don't want titlebars. There are several other window management scripts that implement different layouts.
- boudin 6y agoGnome has a few plugins that adds tilling (paperwm which brings some interesting concepts, pop-shell which is quite good) but in the end I never found the experienced as polished as pure tilling ones. On Gnome i really dislike the fact that workspaces are only on one monitor OR span across all monitors. I really like my workspaces per monitor. I remember not liking how KDE was handling workspaces as well, but it's been a while I've tried so it might have changed since.