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?

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
    5·
    14 hours ago

    You could try also:

    • GNOME PaperWM, a GNOME extension with tiling and endless horizontal scrolling
    • niri
    • StumpWM, a tiling WM with Emacs-like keybindings (and zero eyecandy and waste of screen estate)
    • HerbstluftWM
    • koala@programming.dev
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Yup, came here to mention PaperWM. I used xmonad in the past, but I executed it on top of Mate to have an “easy” desktop environment.

      Nowadays Gnome extensions providing tiling is the equivalent “easy” method. Gnome is not for everyone, but it works out of the box- then you add the fancy tiling window management on top.

      For people who have bounced off systems that require much more set up, I think they are a good option.