I ditched Windows Snap Layouts for a tiling window manager and finally got the Linux experience I wanted
Publish Date: 2026-05-12 15:30:00
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I’ve been using Linux more lately, and I’m missing something when I hop back into Windows: a tiling window manager. Mostly, I miss opening an app and having its initial window just slot into the right place. No mousing it into the spot I want, no playing with snap layouts that just do not work well on my widescreen monitor.
Windows 11’s Snap Layouts aren’t horrible (they’re vastly better than what macOS offers), but they’re not great. So I spent an afternoon testing three tiling window managers on my Windows gaming PC to find out if I could get the Linux-style experience I wanted, and I found it. Eventually. After the worst install process of all three. Ugh.
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