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Sway supports both tiling and floating windows and you can define the rules and defaults as you wish. For example a browser window tiled with an editor and a me

Sway supports both tiling and floating windows and you can define the rules and defaults as you wish. For example a browser window tiled with an editor and a media player floating on top. You could have one virtual desktop that defaults to tiling and another to floating. With a keyboard shortcut you can toggle a window between the two states. I was aware of tiling window managers for a decade before I switched from Gnome to Sway. Now I don’t want to go back. Tiling may seem chaotic, but with Sway you are in the driver’s seat, deciding where each window goes and whether it’s floating or not. There is also interactive window resizing with the mouse and as well as moving windows with the mouse via drag and drop.

aorth 5y ago
> Sway Sway also supports a tabbed layout! I'm a full-time window maximizer (as are sibling commenters). I keep all windows fully maximized and organized on virtual desktops: web and music on 1, terminals on 2, email and office on 3, etc. Love it! Windows being fully maximized was something I learned to like from GNOME 3 when it came out a decade ago. I used Openbox, Fluxbox, GNOME and others for years and I would never go back. Never KDE though. Too messy...
MayeulC 5y ago
As someone who switched from KDE in ~2017 mainly to try wayland, and stayed for the configurability and tiling aspect... Is there a way to make KDE ingest my sway configuration? I would get the best of both worlds this way. Bonus points if the resulting config is compatible with both! I'm pretty sure kwin's window rules support everything you can express in a sway configuration.
- ubercow13 5y ago
  > I'm pretty sure kwin's window rules support everything you can express in a sway configuration That seems very unlikely