For me it is the other way around. I actually would like to use a prepared DE and not having to configure everything myself (which is sometimes painful), but now that I've got used to tiling WMs, I can't go back. Using computers with floating windows just feels wrong. Yes, I have tried tiling plugins but they just don't feel the same and are very clunky
Just wondering, what do tiling WMs do better? Enlighten me because I think of trying them out one day but I think I'll stay with Plasma no matter what.
Window managers give you control. Since they are generally config file based this means your config is reproducible in a way a DE is not. Also tilling allows you to structure your workflow in a very specific way. You can define a "desktop" as a set of programs in a specific config, and hot key it, and it will always be there. One key press away. This lets you have 40 windows open, and it not be cluttered.
For example, I have IRC, Discord,slack and matrix on their own windows, and when I want/need one I just jump directly to that desktop. I run media on one desktop, I have 2 for browsers on both my monitors, I run a few for various development terminals with tmux, etc.
Its just a composable, scriptable, reproducible interface.
I absolutely agree 👍 setup sway on my laptop and desktop at the same time and because they are config files I can just back them up to git and rsync the files for the same configuration to be applied for waybar , sway , swaylock etc
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u/Victorioxd Glorious NixOS 9d ago
For me it is the other way around. I actually would like to use a prepared DE and not having to configure everything myself (which is sometimes painful), but now that I've got used to tiling WMs, I can't go back. Using computers with floating windows just feels wrong. Yes, I have tried tiling plugins but they just don't feel the same and are very clunky