• Zetta@mander.xyz
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      Instead of having your windows float around, they perfectly snap and fill the space of the monitor depending on how many windows you have open. A new DE in alpha right now called Cosmic has both floating windows and tiling, you can change with just a toggle.

      Cosmic is great so far, I run it on Fedora.

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          3 months ago

          The big common ones are i3, Hyprland, or Awesome. However, there are tons out there and there is no right answers.

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        I want my windows anywhere I want them, and in Cinnamon I can snap windows to corners, o top, or bottom… Being forced to work tiled is backwards.

        If as someone mentioned in Cosmic you can toggle it off and on ( and the toggle is esasily accesible, not buried in settings) I’m fine with that

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          “Being forced to work tiled” that’s the main feature of a tiling wm though…

          If you tried it for a while, you’d realize just how annoying floating windows really are. All that manual positioning, focus issues, getting them stuck or hidden behind other windows, etc. For big monitors, I would say tiling is just flat superior to floating windows managers.