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If you're ok with switching to linux, or are already using it, a tiling wm is easily a better investment (5 mins to learn, orders of magnitude more space and ti

If you're ok with switching to linux, or are already using it, a tiling wm is easily a better investment (5 mins to learn, orders of magnitude more space and time efficient) than buying a big monitor with low dpi etc. A bad 720p laptop with a tiling wm has more available screen real estate than a 4k monster regular setup.

oblio 9y ago
... how?
- keenerd 9y ago
  Simple, most other window management paradigms are terrible. The author agrees: > On a laptop screen or normal-sized desktop monitor, I end up putting these different windows on different macOS spaces, but then half the time I swipe the wrong direction to switch spaces and end up going to the wrong space. By the time I get to the correct space my short-term memory is blown and I’ve forgotten what I was doing. I've never had this issue on a tiler. You get 10 (maybe 20) screens accessible with a single key combo. You can thoughtlessly toggle back and forth between any two as fast as you can blink. "Swiping" between a few desktops sounds terrible by comparison. I'm do embedded development, PCB CAD, some graphic design and manage a fleet of servers all from a single 10" laptop screen thanks to tiling. Unless you were asking how a 720p screen can have more real estate than a 4K screen? 4K is 3840x2160 or 8.3M pixels. 1280x720 is 0.92M pixels. So with 10 virtual desktops the 720p screen gives you 9.2M pixels. Slightly more than a 4K screen. You also get the benefit of not having to move your eyes or head from one corner of the screen to the other. What you are working on is always front and center.
upofadown 9y ago
... and tiling WMs make multiple monitor setups more usable as well. Xmonad is probably the best as it allows any virtual workspace to end up on any monitor more or less instantaneously. You can effortlessly juggle a whole whack of virtual workspaces to three monitors. You quickly end up with any possible combination of things you could possibly want in a virtual workspace and you don't have to touch the windows themselves. You can do everything by flipping between the workspaces with everything exactly as you want it and no pointlessly wasted screen space for stuff like window decorations. It has gotten to the point where I feel I am watching something quaint and retro when I watch someone manually moving windows around on a screen.

oblio 9y ago

... how?

keenerd 9y ago
Simple, most other window management paradigms are terrible. The author agrees: > On a laptop screen or normal-sized desktop monitor, I end up putting these different windows on different macOS spaces, but then half the time I swipe the wrong direction to switch spaces and end up going to the wrong space. By the time I get to the correct space my short-term memory is blown and I’ve forgotten what I was doing. I've never had this issue on a tiler. You get 10 (maybe 20) screens accessible with a single key combo. You can thoughtlessly toggle back and forth between any two as fast as you can blink. "Swiping" between a few desktops sounds terrible by comparison. I'm do embedded development, PCB CAD, some graphic design and manage a fleet of servers all from a single 10" laptop screen thanks to tiling. Unless you were asking how a 720p screen can have more real estate than a 4K screen? 4K is 3840x2160 or 8.3M pixels. 1280x720 is 0.92M pixels. So with 10 virtual desktops the 720p screen gives you 9.2M pixels. Slightly more than a 4K screen. You also get the benefit of not having to move your eyes or head from one corner of the screen to the other. What you are working on is always front and center.

upofadown 9y ago

... and tiling WMs make multiple monitor setups more usable as well. Xmonad is probably the best as it allows any virtual workspace to end up on any monitor more or less instantaneously. You can effortlessly juggle a whole whack of virtual workspaces to three monitors. You quickly end up with any possible combination of things you could possibly want in a virtual workspace and you don't have to touch the windows themselves. You can do everything by flipping between the workspaces with everything exactly as you want it and no pointlessly wasted screen space for stuff like window decorations. It has gotten to the point where I feel I am watching something quaint and retro when I watch someone manually moving windows around on a screen.