Seeing a lot of people getting into tiled and scrolling window managers.
I actually like my desktop with overlapping windows and being a bit in a chaotic state and slightly different all the time.
My brain needs some variety and breaks from orderly processes, because I'm a human being and I've evolved to work best in semi-chaotic circumstances.
Obviously you do you but I'm considering this trend at least to some degree productivity wankery.
@thomasfuchs For everyday work tiling doesn’t work for me. I do want to have the possibility to quickly tile a few windows, for this moom on Mac OS does a great job.
@thomasfuchs You'll be happy to know every tiling window manager I've ever used could be configured to float windows by default. I personally just use the hotkey to toggle between tiled and floating for the apps that either don't play nice with tiling or straight up work better floated
@thomasfuchs I was on the same page with exactly the same heuristic reasoning until I got to witness two students of mine working with tiling for a full semester.
Seeing their tailored workflows gave me more than enough reason to reconsider my own ways and now I can't believe I would ever go back to floating, really.
(They're using #arch, btw. I haven't been successful in converting them to #gentoo so far, bloody $&%/)
@thomasfuchs I kinda agree with this for tiling wm. Maybe it wasn't for me. But scrolling wm was a game changer for my workflow. I'm on gnome+paperwm btw.
@eber scrolling I can get much more into
