And omg! I have slept on this feature for so long. I assumed it was just dragging windows to corners and they snap on to the left or right back or top. Then, I installed PopOS and saw an explicit button to turn on windows tiling but I was already using the drag function, so I was confused. I turned it on and omg! I have not felt more stupid and happily surprised by a piece of tech in a while. It just works. I don’t have to be worry about arranging windows a special way for multitasking or for following guides. So much time saved.
How to make the most of it? Have you had a similar experience with something?
You don’t usually have them all open at the same time, you minimize some. Or maybe you add more monitors.
So you never have >2 windows open?
That’s where workspaces come in place, I usually have a single full screen application per workspace, so Meta+1 is my browser, Meta+3 is my IDE, Meta+4 is slack, etc. Some workspaces have more than one application, e.g. I usually keep a few terminals in Meta+2.
This means that I usually work with things occupying all of my screen and in a short keystrokes I’m in whatever I want to be. But if I ever need to open a terminal or a random application it will occupy half my screen and whatever I was doing would resize to the other half, so I never have to grab my mouse to move stuff over to be able to see what I was doing.
Forgive my ignorance but doesn’t that just defeat the purpose?
Nope, they complement each other, you can have workspaces in non tiling window managers, but they’re a must in tiling ones. But the tiling does play a very crucial part, for example my workspace that has the terminals can have several terminals depending on what I’m doing, and being able to open/close terminals and having the remaining adjust is a big part of why I use a tiling window manager. It’s just efficient because 99% of the time when you have 2 apps open you want to look at both simultaneously, so not having to move stuff around with the mouse makes that easier, and for the remaining 1% you just move the app you don’t currently care about to another workspace, so it’s somewhere easily accessible when you want to.