KDE: A Nice Tiling Environment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE
I must be one of the very few &quot;hackerish&quot; minded people that does not really get the appeal of tiling window managers. Even in the early days of Linux I meticulously arranged my <i>overlapping</i> windows in my X11R5 window manager.<p>For example, there are some terminal windows or similar with running logs (or chats) at some of the edges, partially obscured by other windows who make better use of the space they cover. But those partially covered windows are still showing me what&#x27;s currently going on at all times (i.e. the last few lines), and I can get their full content at a mouse click&#x2F;keyboard shortcut press.<p>Then there are partially obscured browser windows. Again the most relevant part of their content remains visible (e.g. for blogs that&#x27;s usually roughly their &quot;left half&quot;, for documentation with a content bar on the left their &quot;right half&quot;), and scrolling them  does not require giving them focus.<p>Then there are tiny windows like minimized views of media players that usually neatly fit into some of the open space resulting from my arrangement. And series of windows all similar to each other that are carefully arranged such that a single click reveals any of them, nearly obscuring the rest of the same series, but never hiding any of them completely.<p>It may look &quot;unkempt&quot; at a first glance, but is actually very deliberate. I feel like a tiling environment with its constantly changing layout would be actual chaos... and somehow generally a step backwards. There are some dedicated situations where I tile two windows next to each other, but that&#x27;s just that: A dedicated situation, often happening on another space&#x2F;desktop.