i think i got used to the tiling window manager paradigm with i3. but i never liked i3 that much. somehow, i heard of herbstluftwm and i switched.

i loved herbstluftwm. i had to create horizontal or vertical splits manually, and then spawn windows, it was nice. but eventually i got bored. and that’s when i switched to bspwm.

bspwm was very nice. i didn’t have to create splits manually, and i stopped spawning more than two windows max, side-by-side. three was when it was absolutely necessary. and i think i got introduced to monocle mode in bspwm.

i briefly switched to sway, but came back to bspwm.

but at one moment, i realized i had been wasting my time editing rofi and polybar configs all day. so i had to switch to something else.

and there it was, KDE Plasma.

plasma was hella confusing at first, it was so overwhelming. it had a gazillion options, and it kinda is a mess to be honest. i just got used to it. but i love it. plasma is so nice.

back in plasma 5, i used kwin-bismuth for tiling. when plasma 6 was released, bismuth broke. so i had to look for alternatives. i tried krohnkite, and it was working till now, but recently when krohnkite was enabled, the windows would start flickering so bad, i had to turn it off. and polonium crashes the kwin session at startup.

so right now i just set all windows to maximized, use alt-tab to switch between maximized windows in the same workspace/virtual desktop. and i use virtual desktops all the time.

alt-q to close the window, alt-g to toggle the window between maximized and centered. alt-{1..8} to switch between virtual desktops.

on the off chance, if i need two windows side by side, i do it the traditional way: super+left/right.

tried to switch to cinnamon and xfce, but plasma is just too good. gonna stick to it.