Desktop PTSD
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"
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"
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
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...
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 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.
Aerospace is too buggy for my taste. Hadn’t heard of yabai though.
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.
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.
No one is "terrified" by programs and how exactly powertoys installed/integrated into OS will confuse anyone? You aren't obligated to use it.
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!
Installed komorebi + altdrag + autohotkey + fluent search on my work windows, janky af but "works"
There are tiling window managers for win and mac too, so i don't think this meme makes sense
"Window Managers" don't exist on windows and mac. There's third party programs that re-position your windows. But you can't replace the window manager for these OSs. AFAIK they don't have a concept of a window manager. Its all one seemless desktop experience.
Love to be proven wrong or at least shown an adequate alternate. Because pic is me in a few weeks. Goodbye slack, google, and zoom. Hello M$ TEAMS.
I'm not clear on what the distinction is that you're referring to. How are the Linux window managers different than the win/mac ones?
I use Amethyst on Mac and it's quite good but it is a fancy repositioning system because it bugs out a few times a day and I need to force a refresh.
Most people forced to use those likely wouldn't have time/permission to install them.
I know there are, the point is to show that FOSS window managers users moved away from commercial enshittified desktop experiemce and are traumatized by it. Basically laughing at my own experiemce with desktop environments.
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?
I use Rectangle whenever I need to do some tiling go decent effect.
Aren't most windows already some form of rectangle? /s
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.
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?
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!"
I prefer KMFDM/XKCD.
Will it work with KDE?
Openbox. Simple and efficient.
It’s true, I’m completely broken. I can’t even use a stacking window manager on Linux, I’m instantly pissed off
Outlook has a ChatGPT tab now. Good times good times.
The reverse for me lol. Mouse-heavy user here
Can confirm
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 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.