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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.

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[–] puzzlebox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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 :)

[–] jaykstah@waveform.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah i feel that. It takes a while, once you're settled in and have done a bit of configuring to make a tiling wm work a specific way then it starts getting harder to go back. I would flip flop between KDE Plasma and either i3 or sway for a long while but eventually my sway config got to a point where I just prefer using it full time as I have to put in more work to make Plasma behave the same way.

That being said i still keep Plasma installed in case i get an itch to just use a DE like that for a bit. Or to check out updates for it.

[–] puzzlebox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

yeah, i think i just never to got to that point you're describing (to have such an extended and working config, that the switch back to a DE would be more effort than just keep going).

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