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- Embed this notice@ryo Well, yes, but that's very limiting. I use different workspaces for different things. 1 for general file management, 2 for images, 3 for videos, 4 for web browsing. But with a dynamic tiler, if I have two browser windows and also another window like say, an XMPP client, I have to see both browser windows at the same time whether I want to or not, while in the tilers that I like, I can have browsing in the left frame (and alternate between the two windows there depending on what I'm doing) and the chat window in the right frame.
With dynamic tilers, it's all or nothing, it's one window or all of them, but what if I want to see two windows? What if I want a file manager in the left frame, to open a bunch of images to look at, and then switch between the images in the right frame? Resizing can also be slow, especially with browsers, so what if I want the browser to be a certain size always, and just have some empty space for me to quickly open and close other windows? Hell, it especially falls apart with a lot of windows. I open a lot of windows per workspace, even having workspaces that are for specific purposes.
So, like I said in the previous, dynamic tilers work for certain people, but they are definitely not for me. They actually worked very well when I was still learning, and not using them on my main system, because I didn't open that many things at once. Now they definitely don't. Unfortunately, a lot of people use dynamics because they want to copy bad YouTube people, and it doesn't suit their workflow, and then they decide that tiling window managers suck, even though it's only one type of tiling. Those people are definitely very cringe.
But hey, you can have them both, I think the perfect window manager would have both, and floating, and a good system for creating bars and menus, but that window manager hasn't been made yet. StumpWM has dynamic tiling too, actually, I should have mentioned.