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I... I- I love tiling window managers
my fav WM ive been using for half a decade is a mixed (manual+dynamic tiling, and floating) wm but i mainly use it as a manual tiling wm.
Is the tiling wm thing that much of a grift? (Genuine question, im not plugged in to online culture very much)
The tiling wm folks only really get away with it because they slander desktop environments. You can get tiling in GNOME or KDE while also not sacrificing the rest of the desktop or a design focus.
People using tiling wms are like ripping out the whole house just so they can fit one piece of furniture in rather than trying to make the furniture fit into the existing well furnished house.
The grift basically is that people portray tiling wms (things like sway) as DIY houses when in reality its like a DIY shed. If you dont use a desktop environment you shouldn't be taken as seriously as someone who does on issues of the desktop. This is how we get things like GNOME being blamed for not adopting unstable protocols because KDE and then a bunch of randos somehow paint a picture of majority support.
GNOME and KDE are both incredibly powerful and flexible, you dont need to throw the baby out with the bath water to perfect your workflow.
Also yeah tiling wms people tend to be chuds because most of them are just 1-2 people.
Honestly, I've come around on this in recent years. I love sway (and tiling windows), but I can do everything it does in GNOME/KDE, and I have the bonus of a no-nonsense cohesive system fit for purpose where accessibility isn't a complete joke. It helps that both GNOME & KDE as organizations are very cool, imo.
because tiling wm people are smug little shits "heh, i bet YOUR desktop environment can't... SPLIT SCREENS" when it's been like a standard feature for over a decade... probably more