To me it’s not even the tiling. It’s the ability to switch focus to windows in a directional manner. Like super hjkl or whatever.

I have no idea how people are still using alt tab in 2025.

baq 3 days ago | parent [-]

> I have no idea how people are still using alt tab in 2025.

Everything is full screen almost always. In a week I need windows tiled for maybe 2h.

wongogue 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

This workflow is even easier on a Tiling WM.

These days I use niri which at its core, is just Alt-Tab blown up as your actual desktop.

	▲	aquariusDue 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Seconding Niri, it's easier to configure compared to other Tiling WMs and has good out of the box defaults. Though you'll have to fiddle a bit with stuff like waybar, fuzzel and xwayland-satellite. But once you've configured that stuff you won't have to fiddle with it non-stop. I'm currently running it on Fedora, to be clear.
	▲	baq 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The point is I don’t need any wm for this workflow. It just works on any box regardless of OS.

WD-42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This sounds like madness to me. At the least, browser + editor to view hot reloading output or docs at the same time. Terminal for tailing output.

	▲	baq 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		There’s a second monitor for those times when it’s an unquestionable benefit. Most of the time having multiple windows open is inefficient use of screen real estate (I either have two or three panes in the IDE - the terminal is also here, a browser with console open, some db query tool with wide tables or corp chat, which I explicitly do not want to see when I’m working on anything of substance.)