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.”
Is there, but it’s behind shortcut keys, gestures, right clicks, or force presses.
There’s also a bunch of tricks that become second nature, especially on smaller laptops. The trackpads really make windowing less of a hassle. I just swipe around and occasionally zoom out on an app (which shows all windows) largely without thinking.
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.
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!
Take a look the yabai it has a lot useful stuff
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Now can you tell me about tiling window managers?
This me. Gonna set up RDP and just remote in from my desktop. I’d rather find a new job than be that unproductive.
It’s true, I’m completely broken. I can’t even use a stacking window manager on Linux, I’m instantly pissed off
Can confirm
The reverse for me lol. Mouse-heavy user here
The Windows file explorer is so goddamned inefficient it’s astounding. For example if you have a directory open and you need to open a second window with the parent directory and put it right next to the current one, it takes less than 2 seconds to set that up with Nemo and it could probably be faster if I actually used a tiling window manager.
The same situation, I timed it, takes TWELVE (12) seconds to accomplish in Windows 10, even with a dedicated gaming gpu and drivers which avoids all the stupid lag when managing open windows and clicking on stuff. How the FUCK do people effectively do ANYTHING on windows involving files? It’s mind boggling to think Windows is the preferred OS for game development, a process where you do this type of thing CONSTANTLY. Fuck.
Does Microsoft even do their own software development on Windows? Even a well-tuned Linux file manager is still reasonably difficult and mentally taxing when you have to do a lot of file management with ADHD but Windows is on an entire different plane of shittiness.
I feel you man
yabai on mac is the most wm like experience
I use Rectangle whenever I need to do some tiling go decent effect.
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.
