The state of tiling window manager on Windows 10

Posted on December 1, 2019  •  1 minutes  • 106 words

The state

1. Workspacer

• Opensource.
• Best in term of feature set.
• Closest thing to an actual tiling window manager on Windows 10.
• Have some weird bugs that’s quite annoying.
• Development velocity is slow.

2. Bug.n

• Opensource.
• Written in scripting language - AutoHotkey. Require AutoHotkey installed.

3. PowerToys

• Opensourced by Microsoft.
• Not really tiling. It’s still manual process.
• Very stable for daily use.
• Not really focusing on window management, it’s just one of the features.
• Development velocity is very fast.

Conclusion

I settled on PowerToys for now but keeping an eye on workspacer. I love workspacer’s feature set. It actually has everything I need but lacking stability.