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Why do we need tiling window managers when we have tmux?
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Every once in awhile i think „yeah, let‘s move to a tiling wm“….but i find myself going back to gnome shortly after, because i can‘t get really used to it, although i really like the concept of tiling WMs…who knows, maybe today is a good day to try it again :)
You can have both, https://github.com/pop-os/shell
just installed it and currently in testing. Thanks for the suggestion!
Hell yea! I've used PopOS for a couple years now and it's pretty fantastic. Being able to enable/disable it on the fly is super great, and you still have all the conveniences of a full DE.
Some people just don't vibe with tiling WMs and that's fine. Kind of a reflection of your inner personnality.
I can't for the life of me not have stacks of things on my desk, and unsurprisingly that's how I like my windows as well.
Yeah i feel that. It takes a while, once you're settled in and have done a bit of configuring to make a tiling wm work a specific way then it starts getting harder to go back. I would flip flop between KDE Plasma and either i3 or sway for a long while but eventually my sway config got to a point where I just prefer using it full time as I have to put in more work to make Plasma behave the same way.
That being said i still keep Plasma installed in case i get an itch to just use a DE like that for a bit. Or to check out updates for it.
yeah, i think i just never to got to that point you're describing (to have such an extended and working config, that the switch back to a DE would be more effort than just keep going).
another aspect – DistroTube did a 10 minute video explaining workspaces were the killer feature of tiling window managers rather than the tiling itself …