Comment by smallerfish
4 hours ago
I think he's bang on with his observation that overlapping windows are a relic.
My wife, whose technical level leans her towards wanting to replace her mac mini when a VPN that she'd installed and then disabled left hostile firewall rules in place ("the internet is flaky on this computer"), is jealous of the tiling setup on my desktop (was hyprland; now sway with a custom dwindle layout). I think tiling has an audience beyond nerds, but I think nobody (perhaps with the exception of omarchy) has made a serious attempt at packaging it in a way that's accessible to business/productivity users. KDE's tiling attempts were, at least last time that I checked, somewhat bolted on and half-assed. I wish omarchy success in de-vibing their codebase, but it would be great to have some serious competition in the space.
> overlapping windows are a relic.
I hope not. I've tried tiling and I just don't like it. I may be in the minority these days, and it may simply be my forty years of use patterns, but you'll have to take my overlapping windows from my cold, dead hands.
Fair, but is it possible you've tried it on a setup that wasn't done particularly well?
The iPad offered only tiling till about 3.5 years ago, and tiling is still available as an option in Settings.
And some people connect their iPad to a full-size monitor, keyboard and mouse and use it as their main desktop machine.
Fair - I used one only briefly when they first came out. Are there any serious attempts on desktop that I'm overlooking?