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> But try using a tiling WM, No. I don't want to. i don't get off on tweaking window environments and other BS. I don't want an ugly half baked interface. Thi

by serge2k 10y ago

> But try using a tiling WM, No. I don't want to. i don't get off on tweaking window environments and other BS. I don't want an ugly half baked interface. This is why I honestly do think "linux is free if your time is worthless" is more than just a snarky comment. > After having spent, maybe, two weeks total effort customising my environment Two weeks. That's absurd. I can go into the apple store and buy a mac and just install homebrew. takes minutes.

zeveb 10y ago
> > But try using a tiling WM, > No. I don't want to. i don't get off on tweaking window environments and other BS. I don't want an ugly half baked interface. That's a bit like not wanting to use a jackhammer to break up asphalt because it doesn't have velvet handles. A tiling WM is neither ugly, nor half-baked, nor does it require tweaking (or require much). > Two weeks. That's absurd. I can go into the apple store and buy a mac and just install homebrew. takes minutes. That's a bit like saying it's absurd that it took four years to build the Golden Gate Bridge, when after all anyone can build a footbridge for his backyard in a weekend. The interface you have available to you on your Mac hinders you more than the interface I have available to me on my Linux boxes; the interface you have available to you on your Mac augments you less than the interface I have available to me on my Linux boxes. I invested two weeks, and they have made me an order of magnitude more productive. This is, yet again, a case of the Blub Paradox. Surely you can see that there are less-powerful, more-painful interfaces to use than that of a Mac — is it so difficult to believe that there are more-powerful, less-painful interfaces than a Mac? If you accept that it's at least possible, are you willing to entertain my contention that window management is in fact wasted time? Are you willing to entertain my contention that having all my regularly-used programs a few keystrokes away can be faster than moving my hands off of the keyboard and using the mouse? Are you willing to entertain my contention that a minimalist interface is — or at least can be — less distracting and thus enables one to enter the zone more easily and stay in it longer?
- linkmotif 10y ago
  What a wonderful and generous explanation!!!

by serge2k 10y ago

zeveb 10y ago

> > But try using a tiling WM, > No. I don't want to. i don't get off on tweaking window environments and other BS. I don't want an ugly half baked interface. That's a bit like not wanting to use a jackhammer to break up asphalt because it doesn't have velvet handles. A tiling WM is neither ugly, nor half-baked, nor does it require tweaking (or require much). > Two weeks. That's absurd. I can go into the apple store and buy a mac and just install homebrew. takes minutes. That's a bit like saying it's absurd that it took four years to build the Golden Gate Bridge, when after all anyone can build a footbridge for his backyard in a weekend. The interface you have available to you on your Mac hinders you more than the interface I have available to me on my Linux boxes; the interface you have available to you on your Mac augments you less than the interface I have available to me on my Linux boxes. I invested two weeks, and they have made me an order of magnitude more productive. This is, yet again, a case of the Blub Paradox. Surely you can see that there are less-powerful, more-painful interfaces to use than that of a Mac — is it so difficult to believe that there are more-powerful, less-painful interfaces than a Mac? If you accept that it's at least possible, are you willing to entertain my contention that window management is in fact wasted time? Are you willing to entertain my contention that having all my regularly-used programs a few keystrokes away can be faster than moving my hands off of the keyboard and using the mouse? Are you willing to entertain my contention that a minimalist interface is — or at least can be — less distracting and thus enables one to enter the zone more easily and stay in it longer?

linkmotif 10y ago
What a wonderful and generous explanation!!!