Only fairly recently has Linux really seen much development of tiling WMs on top of things like Gnome and KDE. The fullscreen mode of Apps alone is just so botched, no way this is gonna work failsafe with a third-party window manager that is reverse engineering the unofficial, breaking, APIs. The virtual desktops there are usually just a single stack behind the scenes, and they are not per screen, so working with those platforms and expensive window manager tools has been always a pain for me.

On MacOS and Windows, on the other hand, I don't see a chance of this working anyhow. If I need a new virtual desktop on the fly, I just create one without any repercussions for the rest of the layout (or stack).Īnd I think that's the key concept of tiling WMs: user choice. I usually have 10+ virtual desktops, because I use 3 screens, and each of them has a different set of virtual desktops - which are also not bound to a specific screen and can be moved to another screen just as easily. It's because they let the user decide what layout and how many virtual desktops they need.

The point why i3 / sway on Linux are used so much is not that they have a specific layouting concept.

Windows window organizer