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Linux: We need Tiling Desktop Environments (linuxblog.io)

submitted 2 months ago by realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] nous@programming.dev 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. What is wrong with a fully featured batteries included desktop environment that has proper tiling support (not just partital drag the window to the edge of the screen support). Lower the barrior to entry so that more people can make use of this powerful way of working. The main reason that tiling is considered hardcore is becuase it has mostly only been available on minimal configure them yourself window managers. But tiling does not have to be for the fully DIY only crowed.

IMO the basic tiling support on gnome or KDE are not good enough. So I am forced to use something minimal but TBH I am sick of needing 100s of lines of config to get a basic environment setup. Cosmic seems like it will be a good answer to this post as its tiling support looks far more fully baked than other full desktop environments and hopefully we will see more people wanting to try out tiling once it reaches a more stable point.

[–] Discover5164@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

with kde 5 i used bismuth, now with kde 6 there is polonium but still a long way to go.

https://github.com/Bismuth-Forge/bismuth https://github.com/zeroxoneafour/polonium