Hello fellow nixers,
In this thread we're going to discuss two prominent ways of laying windows on the screen: tiling and stacking.

There was a long thread on reddit that inspired me to open this for further discussion.

I thought the pros and cons were not as developed as they could be and rotated around the "It works for me why wouldn't it work for you too".

Let's also dismiss in this argument the hybrid window manager, tiling but that allows floating. Because why not make the opposite too, floating but that allows some tiling.

Also it needs to be said that tiling strictly refers to the windows not overlapping and not the management in itself.

Here are some of the arguments:

• Tiling WMs: The aspect ratio of windows might not be respected (not always true if you add gaps in the equation)
  
• Tiling WMs: When you resize one terminal it will send SIGWINCH to all other terminals because they'll also be resized.
  
• Tiling WMs: It is hard, when there are many windows open, to manipulate the tree and replace the windows in the order wanted or find the wanted window (not always true)
  
• Stacking WMs: Is the desktop metaphor (maybe?)
  
• Tiling WMs: allows you to see all the windows on a workspace at the same time (but what about the windows on different workspaces?)
  
• Stacking WMs: Allows you to overlay windows and thus gain space on the screen when it gets cluttered (see desktop metaphor)
  

And here are the arguments related to the management and so that are not true arguments (AKA misconceptions):

• Tiling WMs: Places all the windows at the right position and with the right size for you
  
• Stacking WMs: You have to spend all your time thinking about how to place windows and resize them
  
• Tiling WMs: Are keyboard driven
  
• Stacking WMs: Are mouse driven
  
• Tiling WMs: Need a lot of time to configure
  
• Stacking WMs: Are resources heavy
  
• Tiling WMs: have better workspace management (or do they? why? Stacking has workspaces too)
  
• Stacking WMs: Need to have decoration so that you can drag them around with the mouse
  
• Tiling WMs: Allow better grouping of windows
  

Overall, it's hard to find a lot of *valid* arguments just for the concepts of tiling and stacking themselves without bringing the management part into it.

Please bump this thread with more pros and cons.