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I felt like the kind of micro optimizations that a tiling window manager gives you aren’t worth it in the long run. Sure, it felt like I was moving faster when
by wilsonnb3 8y ago
I felt like the kind of micro optimizations that a tiling window manager gives you aren’t worth it in the long run.
Sure, it felt like I was moving faster when I used keyboard shortcuts to fly around but at the end of the day, switching between windows was never a real bottleneck to begin with.
FWIW I used i3 exclusively for 2-3 years.
- hiq 8y agoWhat do you use now, and how does it compare? I switched to i3 because I was just frustrated with what I had used in the past. I wanted a simple window manager without animations (disabling them on my phone was also a huge gain in terms of usability), that just works and does not get in the way (I had a slow laptop on which Gnome was painfully slow, at the time). The cost was basically to write a configuration file matching what I wanted, learning a few key to switch workspaces and windows, but that was it. I agree with you that these are micro-optimizations time-wise, but the frustration can be real and it gets in the way when you use your computer all day long. The simpler, the better I'd say (although it doesn't have to be a tiling window manager).
- wilsonnb3 8y agoNow I use Windows and MacOS, but immediately after leaving i3 I switched back to gnome. I haven’t used a computer than ran gnome slowly in a long time, so that has something to do with it.