I'm currently using kde and am loving it but online i keep on seeing people say, just get "hyprland or sway". I want to know why they are so praised compared to a normal DE and why people praise the productivity of them.
Yeah they do look clean and minimal. They do level up a system in how you can change the looks and it organizes the system by itself rather than having floating windows, but why are they "essential for every linux user?"
Image credits to u/panospanagia on r/unixporn
They're definitely not essential for every Linux user. I've been using i3 for over a decade now and I will not be parted from it because it lets me make tabs of terminals and then split windows with tabs of terminals and I can jump around between my tabs of tabs of terminals like a deranged monkey with all my fun hotkeys. I am not a well adjusted person. Most people don't want to spend the time customizing their window manager config to get it just so or learn a bunch of hotkeys. Most people like graphical file managers and graphical text editors. Most people should just use a regular ass DE. If you try a tiling window manager and you like it then welcome to the poorly adjusted people club. If not, then you are missing nothing because your brain simply requires a different workflow.