{"id":233826,"date":"2026-04-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/i-tested-four-linux-tiling-window-managers-and-one-of-them-clearly-won-me-over\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:15:10","slug":"i-tested-four-linux-tiling-window-managers-and-one-of-them-clearly-won-me-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/i-tested-four-linux-tiling-window-managers-and-one-of-them-clearly-won-me-over\/","title":{"rendered":"I tested four Linux tiling window managers and one of them clearly won me over"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tested four Linux tiling window managers and one of them clearly won me over<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-04-21 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Tiling window managers aren\u2019t exactly a new concept. They\u2019ve 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!).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\n i3
\n <\/h2>\n

\n Old but gold
\n <\/h3>\n

Chances are you\u2019ve probably heard of i3. It\u2019s 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).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In my experience, i3 was dead simple to…<\/p>\n

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