in ♥️ with linux

I can't imagine any other window system anymore except for scrollable tiling—the display of windows side by side on an endless strip. For me, it's the perfect system.

The most well-known example by now is Niri, of which I'm a big fan.

Niri is fast, simple, and powerful to configure, but it needs an ecosystem around it: panel, dock, wallpaper, screen locker, and so on.

With programs like waybar, quickshell, swaybg, or swaylock, there’s a lot that makes Niri perfect. In short: I love Niri.

But what I love even more is the ecosystem and, above all, the general approach to usability in GNOME. I find the use of the dock particularly brilliant. GNOME seems to have been created exactly for my way of thinking.

Now, GNOME doesn’t offer scrollable tiling, but there is an extension that, among other things, also served as inspiration for Niri: PaperWM

In PaperWM you can configure a huge, huge, huge amount. The settings might overwhelm you a bit at first, but gradually, you can build a wonderful scrollable tiling experience for GNOME.

You can also adjust settings individually for specific programs using the window class or window title. For example, Tuba and Fractal both have 50% width and share workspace 2 for me.

Because of the dream combination of GNOME and scrollable tiling, PaperWM is currently my first choice...