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Not in a GUI though. Sun Windows was overlapping, GEM was overlapping and almost everything else since then.

I'm on a 5120x2160 monitor and tiling is super perfect.

Can't recommend it enough.

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There were others out there, e.g. Oberon, Lilith,...

That's where I learned the power of tiling. Years of using the Acme text editor.

When you also learn drop down menus are not needed either.

Yup, but "normies" do need menus or at least some way to do things that has some degree of visual affordance (e.g. a persistent cmd/ctrl+p, which I think Office has/had).

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