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”
Using Windows feels like wading through mud. eeeuch
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.
Wdym mouse? Might as well give me a touchscreen…
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.”
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.
Take a look the yabai it has a lot useful stuff
That is dope man!
I should add that Aerospace release update to my wm community aswell
I’m using Aerospace and I’m happy with it. Haven’t tried yabai.
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Now can you tell me about tiling window managers?
It’s true, I’m completely broken. I can’t even use a stacking window manager on Linux, I’m instantly pissed off
This me. Gonna set up RDP and just remote in from my desktop. I’d rather find a new job than be that unproductive.
Can confirm
The reverse for me lol. Mouse-heavy user here
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.
yabai on mac is the most wm like experience
I use Rectangle whenever I need to do some tiling go decent effect.
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.
