This is not a post on which Desktop Environment is finally going to rule them all! That conversation is happening elsewhere and I suspect will never end. This is a post discussing the ways you can optimise your windows within a DE. As a user of an UltraWide 21:9 monitor I am a fan of having multiple windows on screen at once. Tiling window managers are very interesting in their default abilities to arrange windows in a fixed fashion.

Back in 2020 I wrote about a few ways you can manage window tiling in Windows and Linux. I am under no illsusions that Microsoft read my post, as far as I’m aware I’ve never met Satya Nadella, which in turn motivated them to built that functionality directly into their upcoming Windows 11. Wherever their motivation came from it’s great to see. Microsoft is calling this Snap Layouts, to see more take a look at The Verge coverage here.