I love WMs but sometimes I wish there was also a fully featured WM (like a DE) for lazy people.
Because sometimes I can't be bothered customizing the configs and I would just rather have a slightly more bloated setup but with faster customization and some features out of the box without to much researching.
But in my perspective, in terms of work flow WMs are just the way to compute efficiently.
Do you have any suggestions of projects that might be out there that do fill this niche?
For me this is Gnome with the pop shell extension. It's so much better than plain i3 in usability and just as good with tiling. Using i3 for years made me appreciate the value of a proper modern desktop environment.
I do not understand the mystique of applications that don't come with a reasonable working config. I don't want to invest hours just to try something and see if it is vaguely suitable. Anyone who wants to delete the default config can easily do so.
I guess people get pulled with sunk costs because by the time you get it working you've spent so much time on it.
When "reasonable" deviates on every major setting then it's not possible to provide a sane default. Both i3 and hyprland have example configurations - I have yet to see two identical configs in the wild.
You have it the other way around: it is aimed at people for whom there can't be a sane default because of the highly individual wants.
If you don't intend to adjust your environment to your workflow that's fine - there's KDE and gnome for a reason.
It doesn't matter if no one ends up with the same configuration. No one ends up with the same configurations on KDE or Gnome either. Having a reasonable starting place is courteous and doesn't diminish the experience for those who wish to delete it immediately.
But I guess it does serve some emotional needs for their communities. So I'm glad it's there for those who need it.
Why do you think that not doing something has more reason than "no one sees the value"?
If you think any of those projects would benefit from it... It's a pull request away.
Could be the case 🤔, I think if there was a more accessible WM with no tinkering in config files needed we might see a bigger adoption to the WM workflow (cause it really is more productive)
Very interesting, but I do wish there was a equivalent but based on a dynamic tilling WM
Are you asking for a gnome extension like g Forge https://github.com/forge-ext/forge or https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM ?
There's wayblue https://github.com/wayblueorg/wayblue which sounds like what you want
In KDE Plasma, Super + T brings up a built in tiling feature. It's super basic, but allows you to set static window snap zones on any display.
Each zone can be split horizontally or vertically, and you can adjust the zone-gaps to the exact pixel you want.
It's not dynamic as far as I know, but for me it's all I need.
Once you go back into regular desktop mode, you can use the zone snaps by holding shift while you drag a window. Releasing the window while holding shift will snap the window into the current snap zone it's closest to.
I think you can get tiling on both KDE Plasma and GNOME. I know it exists for Plasma but not sure about GNOME.
Sadly there is no way around it. The mentioned alternatives like regolith have already been mentioned. There is also some smaller distros with prepared twm configs, but I can't recommend it. Because if you want to customize it, you will have a hard time finding the right ways to do it.
I would recommend arcolinux hyprland
If you want just boot your system and not have to worry about setting up keybindings, my best suggest is ArcoLinuxB i3 Edition and Garuda Linux i3 flavor, you really don't have to worry at all for that, and you can use the i3 reference card to learn the most common keybindigs.
