Thanks, I hate it.
Desktop works do well because it is a canvas of varying sizes where you can spread out your work. Overlapping windows and tiling are both great for me because they serve different functions and I like using either depending on context. This was a lot of examples of the types of ‘helping’ that apple does which I hate. Just let me see and interact with things.
A note about change that works for others but not me: Windows turning the list of apps off start to a search. Fuck that bullshit, I don’t remember the namd of evert app but give me a list of names or icons and I can find it in a second.
It is fine if someone else likes it, great for them.
Please don’t change what isn’t broken. We left gnome over this trash
I try other options now and again. When something is better I use it. Until then, I have things to do with what works.
People continue to innvote, test, and develop new options. Someday one will eventually work out a superior approach that takes off among the general userbase.
Tiling windows managers? I had a glorious i3 config once, and not long ago installed regolith on the ubuntu machine at work. Soon, on my laptop, I will try Noctalia with either Umbria or Niri.
Any WM that relies on keyboard shortcuts as the default has no future on mass market. Also when most people use tiling features in other deskops the most common split for productivity is 1/2 + 1/2 or maybe 1/2 + 1/4+1/4. Pure tiling VMs are overkill in most cases and more splits you have the smaller they get. Something like Niri might be the sweet spot, since for it 50/50 splitting is the default and doesn’t go too heavy on the keybinds and with good shell can somewhat work even without them.
The keyboard shortcuts are not as big a hurdle as asking a non tech savvy person to set up their dotfiles.
mum broke her goddamn
.vimrcagainJesus… just learn some lua, mum
Noctalia with Niri is nice.
I’ve been living a simple life with a mostly default xfce. Now I want to try this and I’m annoyed.
second that
A while back the gnome project had a really interesting and cool unique take on tiling functionality that would bring the otherwise more complex, keyboard shortcut centric desktop ux to a more mouse centric average user userbase
Scrolling wm are also super cool and interesting
