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antonvsyesterday at 4:12 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Managing windows with OS idiosyncrasies becomes a task in itself.

Tiling window managers are a good solution.


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kartoffelsaftyesterday at 4:22 PM

Tiling merely changes the idiosyncrasies, and I say this as someone who primarily uses them. (hyprland in my case)

If you created a window right now, where will it go? Which window will it take its space from? Does it use your focused window? Your mouse position? If your WM supports mixed floating & tiling, how does it go when you flip a window between them? etc. That's all cognitive load when you aren't familiar and still requires some hand control when you are.

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asdffyesterday at 6:38 PM

I prefer desk based management. Windows like papers on my desk, piled on top of eachother peaking out from the sides. Seems chaotic but it is more aligned with how your brain works in the meatspace than looking at a bunch of things at once.