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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by visnudeva@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I wish someone would make a tiling desktop environment instead of only a window manager to make them easy to use for all without tweaking because they are the future of the DEs.

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[–] s20@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think it's "the future" of the DE at all. I think there's room for both, and ideally any given DE should have tiling capability, either inherently like KDE has, or with an extension like you can do in Gnome. Because they both do.

But the DE you're talking about is Cosmic - the new Pop_OS DE that will hopefully show up sometime in the next year or so. It's got tiling as a first class citizen.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Gnomie, so it's not going to impact me much, but it does look cool.