It’s basically the same as a stacking WM, except you can’t lose windows under others. And it automates the window handling with freely sizeable ones like terminals, not hiding them on top of each other, while eg. Steam can get its own Workspace.

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The only thing I tile is windows on the secondary vertical monitor, simple stack of two windows on top of each other. There it works well, as that monitor mostly gets used for monitoring long running processes, webcam for the 3d printer and stuff like that. It’s not windows I actively engage with, but just something running at the side to keep an eye on.

For my main monitor I never quite saw the point. I don’t like windows being off to the side, creates too much perspective distortion on a big monitor to be comfortable to look at, I like them in the center. When I put a window in the center, there isn’t enough space left to the sides to do much useful with, even a simple shell starts line breaking in ugly ways.

I do tile inside Emacs, but even there it’s mostly just a simple vertical tile (code at the top, compiler output at the bottom).

i don’t like it tbh. I prefer virtual desktops; I could see how a kiosk it might be helpful, where based on streaming data, a controller opens / closes tiles and the Wm makes it work.

For me, diff desktops for diff modes of use that auto start @ login & ability to hotkey across. This was a bigger deal when debugger and editor were separate and starting an app meant clicking and dragging the initial size (who has time for that). :)

Remember: empty RAM is wasted RAM!

In my tilling wm (xmonad and before that ion3) all software is always full screen and I have them in “tabs" per “desktop” aka “tag”'.

It is so nice to have everything available via keyboard, after decade of same setup I don’t even think where is what.

And xmonad is soooo good with multiple monitors, nothing comes close.

Don’t need the mouse. Nothing ever gets tucked behind anything else. dwm allows you to put one window on multiple tags (desktops) in multiple window arrangements. Also it’s fully scriptable. Why NOT use a tiling WM?

Not needing to search through layers when I’m multitasking is the big thing. Having a file manager, ide and documentation all on one monitor makes things much easier.

I am always creating content on one half of my screen and browsing through documentation or specifications or chat logs on the other half. So it makes sense, and saves me lots of time, if I setup my computer to automatically place certain windows such that they fill the whole left of the screen and other windows so they fill the whole right of the screen. And this is precisely what tiling window managers are designed to do – especially ones that let you define your own rules about what windows go where.