I used to do the same, but recently I've found a dustro and window manager that just work for me. The distro is Fedora atomic, and the window manager is sway.

I pretty much just used a floating window manager like a tiling one, almost always snapping them to 1/2 or 1/3 of the screen. Eventually I tried sway, and after learning some of the shortcuts, it seems like the perfect window manager for someone like me.