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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"
Okay give me the short and simple. What window manager should I try. I'm using an off shoot of Fedora.
BSPWM + lxqt/ xfce (lxqt recommended)
You'll also need SXHKD for better and easier shortcut handling
Itβs true, Iβm completely broken. I canβt even use a stacking window manager on Linux, Iβm instantly pissed off
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.
Installed komorebi + altdrag + autohotkey + fluent search on my work windows, janky af but "works"
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.
Can confirm
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.
Outlook has a ChatGPT tab now. Good times good times.
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.
Using Windows feels like wading through mud. eeeuch
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?
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."
The reverse for me lol. Mouse-heavy user here
Wdym mouse? Might as well give me a touchscreen...
I use Rectangle whenever I need to do some tiling go decent effect.
Aren't most windows already some form of rectangle? /s
I'm using Aerospace and I'm happy with it. Haven't tried yabai.
Aerospace is too buggy for my taste. Hadnβt heard of yabai though.
This me. Gonna set up RDP and just remote in from my desktop. I'd rather find a new job than be that unproductive.
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.
yabai on mac is the most wm like experience