I did a quick package search and found about a dozen window managers.  Two that
 mentioned tiling explicitly in the short description are:
 
 Bluetile
 Spectrwm
 
 I think both twm and jwm support tiling.  I haven't used either in quite some
 time.  These are very very simple wm's
I have lists of window managers, and I have even tried two fairly highly rated -- i3 and xmonad. I'm here to tell you, I couldn't get either one to do a damn thing! This is, obviously, not a criticism of the window managers. I'm looking for some brief instruction.
I don't have any experience with the two the package search turned up.
Well, that would be helpful, if you had it.