Comment by RMPR
I wish the author had spent more time explaining what's better about SWM compared to TWM.
The only thing he said:
> It was the best of both worlds—easy to navigate, while remaining mousable.
Is not really convincing as Cosmic desktop for example is tiling while remaining mousable.
I have been vaguely aware of PaperWM and Niri but never saw the appeal productivity-wise.
I can just give you my view. I've been a TWM user for >10 years than switched to niri via some of the sway/hype land scrolling plugins.
My problem with TWMs was always that depending on monitor size you can open 3-4 windows in a set layout (be it the tradional spirals, or H splits...) before you have to do "manual" window management (i.e. move windows into tabbed layouts, move them to new workspaces,...). So for me that generated a friction, where sometimes I just wanted e.g. to quickly open a terminal do some things but keep the rest the same, but not knowing if the terminal becomes permanent. I other words in TWMs I found myself having to know what exactly I want the window for all the time.
SWMs get rid of that friction, I just open a new window and it gets pushed to the right, while keeping windows at the perfect size and if not I can easily switch between the 3 sizes I want (never found I needed more than fullscreen half screen, third of the screen). So I simply don't have to think what I want the e.g. terminal for (something long term or just quick try) before I use it. While it sometimes makes finding the right window a little more messy (the overview really helps though), I find I end up more organised, because I keep related windows in the same workspace, while on TWMs I ended up with 3 or 4 workspaces just for temporary terminals (which made finding the right one often very messy as well).