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I used to use Sway and I found tiling to be useful only when using multiple terminals. Tmux allows me to have tiling functionalities for terminals while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.

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[–] dlarge6510@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I've tried hard to get libreoffice and dvddisaster to render in a terminal but for some reason it never works... 😏

Why do we need tmux if we have tiling window managers?

[–] jaykstah@waveform.social 1 points 1 year ago

For most people using a tiling window manager is something they want for their whole user experience, not just for tiling terminals haha

[–] andarwaid@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Because not everything can be viewed in terminal, crab_man

[–] hoogs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I use both 🤷‍♀️