My Advice For Finding The Right Tiling Window Manager

Let's talk about what you need to keep in mind when considering a tiling window manager. Glad to be back boys!
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[snistr]

"I'm not gonna give you that cliche BS of pick one that works best for you"

THANK YOU, I hate reading articles and they end it on that cop-out way to not offend their readers, like it's okay to have an opinion. Great video overall

[anon_y_mousse]

Personally, I'd rather not learn yet another programming language just to configure a WM, and truthfully, I kind of hate configuration files being programming languages in the first place. Maybe one day I'll fork DWM and integrate a config file parser into it, add all the features I can think of and make it more to my liking. Until then I'll just keep using KDE with all the myriad shortcut keys I have for doing whatever window management I want, including pushing them into tile positions. As a bonus, when Wayland is fully implemented, KDE will work with it fully. And yes, I fully realize that many people won't get my hatred for this type of configuration file that all the WM's seem to use given that I know how to program, but I will also fully admit to being weird, but also the process of updating their configuration is just annoying.

[pip]

7:44 Oh, something magical happened. In Summer 2024, they fully released open kernel modules and made them the new default support. Wayland support on Nvidia is so good these days.

[NiHiL]

What if I want my tiles to be laid out dynamically, but I also may want to move (and possibly resize) some of them to other places for convenience sake?

[gimcrack]

My top three are i3, bspwm, and herbstluftwm

[kuryart]

I had problems running Sway (which uses Wayland) in a libvirt/QEMU VM, it got very buggy and glitchy, and consumed a lot of CPU processing. It also doesn't work with openSUSE Tumbleweed YaST, because running GUI as sudo in Wayland is not possible. But it is a great TWM, by the way.

[freeculture]

Xorg works, wayland isn't giving me any better productivity or gaming. If anything, nvidia proprietary and wayland don't get along so why bother with something not needed? Same reason i don't use systemd or pulseaudio, with Gentoo its a breeze to stay away from unwanted things, a little USE - flag and never again something will bother you and as a bonus you end with a leaner and much stable and updated system.

[Matshiro]

Funny because I always have screen tearing on wayland, xorg is much much more stable

[brunorcabral]

Gnome + Forge extension worked for me better than i3

[denizkendirci]

I'm a ratpoison guy because it's extremely lightweight with no dependency whatsoever, and my ratpoisonrc is 10 lines at most i don't need to copy any dotfiles after a clean linux installation write the 10 lines in 10 seconds and i'm good to go, but recently i switching to wayland because no matter tweak i did i found online it doesn't fix screen tearing whlist watching videos on browser completely and so i'm using river wm + rivercarro layout. I haven't tried hyprland yet, does it have monocle layout built-in? I was to give up ratpoison/emacs type keybinding, i want to keep the monocle at least. Aside from monocle layout, i don't need any features, i need it to be ultra simple and raw.

[YPLabs]

For me using Nvidia wayland is veeery laggy am i doing something wrong

[scottb]

Less weed notes. Good to see you back. Solid video.

[im.sp]

i use xorg cuz my nvidia card shits it self using and wayland thing. if i were to use wayland, it would make my second monitor (it is quite new) feel so much worse and blurry. but to be fair, i only tried hyprland and sway. I love dwm and Xorg and i really want a easier to config dynamic wm (not awesome cuz their config is like a damn essay) and that uses xorg.
EDIT 1: the best wayland i have used was on kde
EDIT 2: my nvidia card is a rtx 3050, i cant upgrade cuz laptop

[husto_]

Вітаю! Слухай, хотів би почути твою думку з приводу тайлового менеджера "Hyprland". Як він тобі? І чи варто морочитися з налаштуванням під відеокарти Nvidia для Wayland

[xrenynthemusicmage]

Why wouldn't I wanna start with hyprland? Its default config is also really easy to understand and expand upon plus it looks the prettiest right out of the box