It's really not. Depending on your conditioning/muscle memory from other systems it can be a little hard at first but it really does get easy and intuitive if y

It's really not. Depending on your conditioning/muscle memory from other systems it can be a little hard at first but it really does get easy and intuitive if you do it everyday. And the benefits of extra screen real estate and less mousing are great. Of course it's more suited to someone using the cli than say someone doing heavy photo editing so your mileage may vary depending on your typical workflow. For me it's tmux and cwm but the result is very similar to the article.