I used to use Sway and I found tiling to be useful only when using multiple terminals. Tmux allows me to have tiling functionalities for terminals while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.
Because I don’t want my Firefox window overlapping my Vim window.
while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.
What if I don’t want that?
I use both 🤷♀️
Tiling at the window level makes much more sense and is technologically more sound than pushing windowing into the terminal output. Also see this comment by the creator of the kitty terminal emulator.
I use sway because it gives me 4 hours more battery life compared to gnome.
Try managing thousands of images with Unix timestamps for names with only the terminal. Or browsing the web.
There’s tons of stuff that is simply better done in a GUI.
gaps
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 :)
I’ve tried hard to get libreoffice and dvddisaster to render in a terminal but for some reason it never works… 😏
