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I've always found tiling WMs to be quite nice on small screens, but a chore on large screens. I use a 27 inch 4k screen currently and much prefer gnome or xfce.

• qudat 5y ago
  27inch + 1440p single monitor here — window managers are awesome
• ssivark 5y ago
  I’d have imagined exactly the opposite — Single window likely maximized on small screens but much fancier tiling on large screens!
  • hyperhopper 5y ago
    As an xmonad user I'll echo that this fits my workflow. Small screens I'll use 0-1 non-Fullscreen layouts, and large screens I'll use many more.
• vidarh 5y ago
  Some tiling wms at least can handle floating windows just fine so you can pick and choose. My bspwm setup uses one floating workspace and the rest tiling, so I switch to the floating one for apps or tasks where it feels easier. But I prefer tiling most of the time on a large screen too, mostly because makes manipulating windows with a keyboard faster to have a simple, predictable layout. In practice I usually end up with 2-4 windows per workspace, with a few with 1.
• cycomanic 5y ago
  I'm on a 32 and 27 in monitor and there is nothing better than having a tiling wm. The available space is so large I really don't want to touch the mouse to put something into the right position. To add to the rest of the discussion. I've tried different tiling wms. Starting with qtile (written in python) to awesome, xmonad i3 and now I'm on sway. I think xmonad has the best way of dealing with multiple screens (tags are essentially independent of screen), which I missed originally when moving away from it. Fortunately there are some python scripts to emulate the same behavior on i3/sway.