I tried GlazeWM and it does what it says “technically” but there’s a lot of edge cases where it doesn’t and things just glitch out or don’t tile. Applications that don’t work well where you have to edit the configs per app etc. I settled on using Komorebi [1] instead and it’s a lot more of “just works”, just run it and go.

[1] https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

I've never found an alternative shell on Windows that integrated as well as explorer. That's to be expected I suppose, but it's an annoyance I find it hard to get past. That, and the Windows DE works well enough for me for the stuff I have to do on Windows.

Tiling is old news, bring on scrollable window managers.

I honestly think scrollable VM is the future of window management. It just make sense to arrange windows like that instead of cram multiple opened windows in a fixed area.

I feel like WMs should provide an api to position windows, so you do not have to write an entire WM to just place the windows a little differently.

More here: https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers (for most platforms, including Windows)

Very happy with Windows native window management. WinKey + arrow keys is such an intuitive and easy way to manage windows I don't even want to go back to using i3 on my Linux install.

Plus I can drag windows to the top and see multiple layout options and arrange them however I want, even with 10+ windows open don't feel the need to complicate things further.

I know this will piss off i3/keyboard purists, but oh well.

Edit: I know i3 is super customizable and all the malarkey but I want to get shit done and not spend all day fiddling with my config. ( this is coming from a serial distro/WM hopper )

I've tried this a bit and I think it's probably the best solution for an experience similar to i3 in Windows. I had tried various other solutions to the past but didn't get the i3, mouseless experience.

The only thing I couldn't find is a way to define the "new window tiling mode", i.e in i3 you open two windows with vertical tiling, then change the tiling mode to horizontal and open two more windows. Now you'll have one tall window to the right and three windows splitting the right part one below the other.

Are there any alternative Windows tiling WMs that would hide the title bars altogether? More than a decade ago, there was a dwm fork for Windows [1] which did this, but no idea how well it works on W10/W11.

1: https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dwm-win32/

It's fascinating to me how many people there are out there still using cmd on windows and not powershell or even windows terminal