alt text: Scene of The Punisher where he is desperate having a nightmare, captioned “When a tiling window manager user has to use a MacOS/Windows desktop”
I’ve been working on my own macOS tiling window manager inspired by Gtile for gnome. I’ll probably put it on github at some point.
That is dope man!
Okay give me the short and simple. What window manager should I try. I’m using an off shoot of Fedora.
Hyprland is awesome. Simple config + good out of the box experience
But for almost all tiling managers I recommend you steal your first config from r/unixporn and then just adapt it
I quite like Hyprland
BSPWM + lxqt/ xfce (lxqt recommended)
You’ll also need SXHKD for better and easier shortcut handling
Linux developers can’t name their products any better than they name their variables.
“Programming done, time to publish, now it just needs a name…” briefly pauses, then smashes face into keyboard… “There! … ehh, no, still missing something.” clicks random spot, types X… “Perfect! Send it!”
Will it work with KDE?
It’s true, I’m completely broken. I can’t even use a stacking window manager on Linux, I’m instantly pissed off
The real crime is how MacOS window animations take forever and don’t switch input focus immediately.
And if you disable animations, you still have to wait for focus. But the worst behavior is when you minimize a window and later cmd+tab to it and all windows just lose focus.
Installed komorebi + altdrag + autohotkey + fluent search on my work windows, janky af but “works”
I landed on using HammerSpoon on Mac with a script library to tile the windows. Certain apps take a moment to resize but it generally works. It’s still not a completely mouse-less experience.
As much as I despise Windows while also using archlinux/i3-wm as my daily driver…
Tiling is no rocket science. Basically every stacking window manager including Windows can do it well enough to be usable with just a few properly configured defaults and short-keys.
I don’t use Windows anymore but Microsoft Powertoys exist. And I have no clue why they don’t ship it with Windows by default…
Because like most things made for power users: it confuses and terrifies regular users.
Seriously, even with something as simple as Fancy Zones, regular users would get frustrated when they move a window while accidentally or purposely holding shift and their window reshapes itself.
It’s always my first install after Firefox.
Can confirm
Outlook has a ChatGPT tab now. Good times good times.
Using Windows feels like wading through mud. eeeuch
Too real. Haven’t used Windows in over 20 years. New job has locked down SOE laptops. I’m not even allowed to install putty without permission.
I use niri btw.
It honestly feels like an alien device to me… wdym, firefox-nightly isn’t just in WS 3, reachable by pressing Super + 3, but somewhere in that list in of Alt + Tab and I have to search that shit?
Mac has an absence of window management. it’s like the product owner stopped thinking halfway through the desktop experience and handed it over to the intern.
when demo day came the PO saw it and was shocked at how horrible it was but had to sell it to save their own ass.
they opened the whole demo with, “I want you to think about this experience and stop, then…think differently.”
Wdym mouse? Might as well give me a touchscreen…
