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And omg! I have slept on this feature for so long. I assumed it was just dragging windows to corners and they snap on to the left or right back or top. Then, I installed PopOS and saw an explicit button to turn on windows tiling but I was already using the drag function, so I was confused. I turned it on and omg! I have not felt more stupid and happily surprised by a piece of tech in a while. It just works. I don’t have to be worry about arranging windows a special way for multitasking or for following guides. So much time saved.

How to make the most of it? Have you had a similar experience with something?

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[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 19 hours ago

I usually have a single full screen application per workspace

Forgive my ignorance but doesn't that just defeat the purpose?

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Nope, they complement each other, you can have workspaces in non tiling window managers, but they're a must in tiling ones. But the tiling does play a very crucial part, for example my workspace that has the terminals can have several terminals depending on what I'm doing, and being able to open/close terminals and having the remaining adjust is a big part of why I use a tiling window manager. It's just efficient because 99% of the time when you have 2 apps open you want to look at both simultaneously, so not having to move stuff around with the mouse makes that easier, and for the remaining 1% you just move the app you don't currently care about to another workspace, so it's somewhere easily accessible when you want to.

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