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> AwesomeWM just works.

I used tiling window managers for years (I started with wmii, and I even used ESXM), but now I'm settled on Gnome: Everything works out of the box, and it's mostly keyboard driven. I don't know if there's a good argument for me now to return to tiling window managers.

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A bit attraction of _tiling_ WMs is ... automatic tiling of windows. Does Gnome do that (haven't used it seriously in about 2 decades)?

No, it does not natively, but there's discussion to do that [1].

There was a discussion here about it a few days ago [2].

[1] https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2023/07/26/rethinking-windo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36880235

popOs's distribution of gnome includes a tiling plugin that will work nicely out of the box if that's what you like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fltwBKsMY0

You can have both with the Forge extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4481/forge/

Add Space Bar and you are close to e.g. i3.

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