I tested four Linux tiling window managers and one of them clearly won me over

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Tiling window managers aren’t exactly a new concept. They’ve been here for quite some time now, with i3 and bspwm being some of the older ones out there (but still very much a favorite!).

Every tiling window manager seems to do its own thing, be it custom layouts or a user-defined configuration file to control each and every part of the window manager.

This makes it really hard to jump into it as a beginner, and while some options are a lot easier, a tiling window manager is in no way close to being as accessible as a traditional desktop interface, like KDE Plasma.

With so many options, keeping track of it all can be exhausting. I felt the same way too, back in my early days of distro-hopping and desktop swapping. After going through the most popular picks out there, I feel like I finally have a winner.

i3

Old but gold

Chances are you’ve probably heard of i3. It’s been one of the oldest tiling window managers, and still remains a popular choice to this day. It also uses a manual tiling system, splitting your display into equally-sized windows (that is, unless you use a script like autotiling).

This is also one of the easier ones to configure options within this list. The i3 configuration file uses a pretty basic syntax that has barely seen any changes, and somehow still manages to feel feature complete all these years later.

In my experience, i3 was dead simple to…

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