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I like it how it is on Windows 11, with 6 zones (tl-l-bl and tr-r-br, where t=top, l=left, and top and bottom target that quarter of the monitor while the middle targets the entire height of that side) and maximize/unmaximize windows by dragging the title bar to the center top of the monitor.

Then, in addition to this, with Actual Window Manager, map two layouts (2|2, 3|3, so 4 "panes" or 6 panes) via shortcuts where the dragging of the title bar shows these panes as targets for the window to pull it in when pressing shift at the same time. And with Ctrl-Shift Z or X I select one of the two layouts.

The 2|2 and 3|3 layouts are useful if I want a grid of terminal windows on the monitor while Windows's native features are good to move windows around quickly.

The benefit of having multiple terminal windows in a grid vs one tiled terminal is that I can pin selected terminals to the foreground.

I wouldn't want a desktop environment to generate layouts automatically for me, unless it can see what I'm doing and ask me if it should switched to a layout it proposes to me through a preview image on the display.


Mnyeah, for me the Windows 10 tiling was just right. In Windows 11 it's way too fiddly. Like every time I tile a window say to the left half of the screen (WIN + <-) it brings up every other window as an option to tile to the right half even if I already have a window tiled there.

There's other fiddlyness but I can't be bothered now. I need to make a list so I can kvetch properly about it, with bullet points and all. And references.

But overall I'm sorry to say even Win 11 is still better at tiling windows than almost anything I've tried on Linux (I had Xmonad on a laptop way back when and that was actually quite good). Though of course there's always text mode with Midnight Commander so :P

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