I see it as a great middle ground for those that wanting to use tiling WMs but do not want to dabble into editing config using text files, scripts etc. I’ve been running Sway for a year and my initial feedback is really positive. A lot of stuff I had to look up a lot to implement in sway just works with no hassle.
Tiling WMs have a lot of benefit to those using it, but mainly window management becomes unbelievably easier. Not needing to use mouse for simple tasks like resizing windows, moving between programs gives you way more flexibility with what you can do with your cursor.
I like Pop, but note that Gnome has a few extensions that implement tiling (I use PaperWM). I believe KDE also has some tiling support.
Certainly, many of the hardcore tiling environments are too bare and require significant effort to get to a usable state (esp. on laptops, where you want wireless network applets), and it’s unfortunate that it is no longer so easy to mix and match components (e.g. I used to run xmonad on top of Mate).
Having said that, I’ll have another go with the beta!
I see it as a great middle ground for those that wanting to use tiling WMs but do not want to dabble into editing config using text files, scripts etc. I’ve been running Sway for a year and my initial feedback is really positive. A lot of stuff I had to look up a lot to implement in sway just works with no hassle.
Tiling WMs have a lot of benefit to those using it, but mainly window management becomes unbelievably easier. Not needing to use mouse for simple tasks like resizing windows, moving between programs gives you way more flexibility with what you can do with your cursor.
I like Pop, but note that Gnome has a few extensions that implement tiling (I use PaperWM). I believe KDE also has some tiling support.
Certainly, many of the hardcore tiling environments are too bare and require significant effort to get to a usable state (esp. on laptops, where you want wireless network applets), and it’s unfortunate that it is no longer so easy to mix and match components (e.g. I used to run xmonad on top of Mate).
Having said that, I’ll have another go with the beta!