I haven't used a tiling WM but I'm intrigued by the idea. I have reservations, specifically that I have really poor eyesight so I honestly don't know how many windows I could usefully put on a screen anyway. But still, piles of windows are a mess.
But here's where I always get stuck on such things with Linux in particular:
1. It's usually a whole new set of keybinds I have to learn. I feel the same way about tmux/screen, emacs and vim and the like. For the others I get that there is a point because you can use all of them in vt-environments (eg over ssh connections). Whatever the case, they all represent a cognitive load that I have difficulty motivating myself to summit. You just get a lot of behaviour for free with a traditional mouse UI;
2. An esoteric scripting/configuration language, in this case Haskell for XMonad (it seems?). Often the out-of-the-box defaults will be sparse and/or rough and you'll have a whole bunch of conflicting advice on how you should modify that.
This works for many people and I"m genuinely happy for you.
Are there any tiling WMs that are a little more... accessible?
But here's where I always get stuck on such things with Linux in particular:
1. It's usually a whole new set of keybinds I have to learn. I feel the same way about tmux/screen, emacs and vim and the like. For the others I get that there is a point because you can use all of them in vt-environments (eg over ssh connections). Whatever the case, they all represent a cognitive load that I have difficulty motivating myself to summit. You just get a lot of behaviour for free with a traditional mouse UI;
2. An esoteric scripting/configuration language, in this case Haskell for XMonad (it seems?). Often the out-of-the-box defaults will be sparse and/or rough and you'll have a whole bunch of conflicting advice on how you should modify that.
This works for many people and I"m genuinely happy for you.
Are there any tiling WMs that are a little more... accessible?