I wish someone would make a tiling desktop environment instead of only a window manager to make them easy to use for all without tweaking because they are the future of the DEs.

  • cosima_takeyama@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    1 year ago

    If you use a distro based on Ubuntu or Debian (like PopOS and others) I recommend Regolith Desktop. You can install it on an existing setup and it’s ready to go out of the box. You can choose it from the login screen like any other desktop environment like GNOME or KDE. The next version will also bring Sway/Wayland support since obviously X is on its way out in the long term.

  • zShxck@lemmy.ml
    31·
    1 year ago

    There is an extention of Gnome called pop-shell that does exactly what you want

  • dragnucs@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    You can use your favorite windowmanager with your favorite Desktop. That said, KDE has tiling capabilities.

  • Euphoma@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Theres a gnome extension for tiling. You can also use i3 with xfce (I like wayland so I stopped using that)

  • ducking_donuts@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    KDE has pretty good tiling functionality these days, not much need in using another WM unless you have a very specific workflow in mind

    • Prunebutt@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      I once saw a video which showed off the built-in Plasma tiling feature and complained that it could not have been developed by a tiling WM user, since it was very inflexible and mouse focused. He could not use it with a keyboard, which kind of defeats the purpose of tiling in the first place.

      • ducking_donuts@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        Everyone’s workflow is different and it could very well be that the plasma tiling features weren’t a good match for the author of that video.

        My tiling needs are pretty simple and I rarely use anything more complicated than a vertical split.

        There were also major changes in the plasma tiling earlier this year so if that video predates the concerns no longer apply.

        You’d probably have to give it a try to see if all the features you need nicely work with a keyboard.

        • shut_up_linux_nerd@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m in the same boat. I use tiling more when it has virtually zero visible edge and I just get more overall window space. That’s literally all I want tiling for most of the time on any machine. I’m completely content with that.

  • fortified_banana@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    You can actually tell KDE to use a window manager other than KWin. I’ve used i3 with KDE like this in the past, and it’s pretty good as long as you tweak the i3 config a bit. Somebody wrote a guide here with the necessary config changes.

    Little disclaimer: I’ve not done this in years, but the linked guide was update recently so I believe it should still work ok.

  • matsnake86@feddit.it
    1·
    1 year ago

    I personally use the tiling features recently introduced in plasma. For my needs it works just fine.

  • dlarge6510@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    I can’t stand tiling environments, apart from Emacs lol.

    I use Window Maker which is a classic WM I used back in the 90’s. I used to use XFCE, still do on a couple of laptops, and I thought I would miss the DE stuff that WM obviously didn’t have.

    Nope, I just brought in stuff that WM had that made it more useful.

  • tuto193@kbin.social
    01·
    1 year ago

    I’m using Pop_Os! Since 1.5 years and I basically fell in love with it. I was super annoyed with Gnome not having it and KDE being overkill for my personal use. I’m now using Pop_OS! At home and at work and patently waiting for the coming changes that they’re doing using Rust :)