2mo ago

Desktop PTSD

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"

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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.
- Maybe I’m weird, but I prefer the animations. It feels more natural than things just popping into my view in my opinion.
  
  I don't take issue with the animations per se. They could be faster and transfer input immediately, and I would take no issue.
  
  That is true, animations can make your brain understand that something changed position faster than if they teleported.
Wdym mouse? Might as well give me a touchscreen...
- 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.
Aerospace or yabai
- I should add that Aerospace release update to my wm community aswell
- Aerospace is too buggy for my taste. Hadn’t heard of yabai though.
- 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
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...
- It's always my first install after Firefox.
Installed komorebi + altdrag + autohotkey + fluent search on my work windows, janky af but "works"
alt text: Scene of The Punisher where he is desperate having a bad dream, captioned "When a tiling window manager user has to use a MacOS/Windows desktop".
- Now can you tell me about tiling window managers?
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 use Rectangle whenever I need to do some tiling go decent effect.
- Aren't most windows already some form of rectangle? /s
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 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?
It’s true, I’m completely broken. I can’t even use a stacking window manager on Linux, I’m instantly pissed off
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
  @POTOOOOOOOO@reddthat.com @sanderium@lemmy.zip
- I quite like Hyprland
- Openbox. Simple and efficient.
Outlook has a ChatGPT tab now. Good times good times.
The reverse for me lol. Mouse-heavy user here
Can confirm
yabai on mac is the most wm like experience
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.

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