In my case, I don't think I could go laptop-screen-exclusive because I've become too accustomed to my monitor being held at exactly the right height and distance from my eyes with a VESA arm. This can be done with laptops too (and in fact, my laptop is on a VESA ARM via adapter itself), but it wouldn't be particularly comfortable to use as a primary monitor at the same distance.
As far as tiling window managers go, I haven't been able to make them work for me on any size of screen. It probably boils down to the sorts of programs one uses in their day to day but I found that the auto-tiling does the wrong thing frustratingly often and enough programs are opted out into floating mode that it makes more sense to stick with a more traditional floating WM with optional tiling.
I do however agree that smaller screens should be a bigger priority, but this is done easily enough without giving up a desktop monitor. Sidecar on an iPad works nicely for this, and there are plenty of portable screens that are just laptop panels in a chassis that you can hook up. There's also no shortage of bare laptop panels on eBay that one can assemble with a driver board and 3D printed case.
In my case, I don't think I could go laptop-screen-exclusive because I've become too accustomed to my monitor being held at exactly the right height and distance from my eyes with a VESA arm. This can be done with laptops too (and in fact, my laptop is on a VESA ARM via adapter itself), but it wouldn't be particularly comfortable to use as a primary monitor at the same distance.
As far as tiling window managers go, I haven't been able to make them work for me on any size of screen. It probably boils down to the sorts of programs one uses in their day to day but I found that the auto-tiling does the wrong thing frustratingly often and enough programs are opted out into floating mode that it makes more sense to stick with a more traditional floating WM with optional tiling.
I do however agree that smaller screens should be a bigger priority, but this is done easily enough without giving up a desktop monitor. Sidecar on an iPad works nicely for this, and there are plenty of portable screens that are just laptop panels in a chassis that you can hook up. There's also no shortage of bare laptop panels on eBay that one can assemble with a driver board and 3D printed case.