[majkinetor]

One important distinction is that you can still resize the window without affecting other windows, so not really true tiling WM in linux sense, where you can never escape the tiles.

I have never seen Windows WM behave the way i3 does.

[ianhanschen]

Windows can be made to behave like i3, with a lot of work. I've done a few different things over the years, but I never got into i3 so I haven't made my personal WM software work like that.

It's a bit of a curiosity nowadays, but Windows started out as a tiling system - if memory serves, overlapping windows were not supported until 2.1. But even then, it wasn't like i3.

- guy that worked on the Windows WM (USER & DWM) for over a decade

[mcyoloswagham]

damn that's very interesting, due to certain performance issues on very old hardware, I was debating writing a driver for win32k, make it work faster, like I mean 1-5ms render times, but it was too much of a mess. DWM & Win32k are very complicated

[ianhanschen]

Before coming to Microsoft, I wrote my own EngAlphaBlend() accelerator driver in 2003 or so. I knew a lot about how things worked from disassembly but after coming to MS in 2004 I quickly destroyed a lot of my own assumptions. Mess? no. Complicated? yes.

[mcyoloswagham]

well I mean it was too much of a mess in my own work, I know a bit about win32k, but trying to deal with all the xxx, yyy,zzz functions and the locks and everything kinda confused me, and so I gave up. :(

[RMPR]

> where you can never escape the tiles

Tbf that's exactly what floating mode is for

[3131s]

Can floated windows in i3 be snapped to somewhere on the screen in any way?

I use i3 but don't know of any way to do this.