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The mouse is the least ergonomic input device. I have a trackball which is mildly better. Until someone develops a pointing device that doesn't cause rsi I will
by pard68 7y ago
The mouse is the least ergonomic input device. I have a trackball which is mildly better. Until someone develops a pointing device that doesn't cause rsi I will stick to tiling wms and terminals.
I am also an order of magnitude faster at my job than my colleagues stuck in gui land,pecking away at their IDEs. Not to mention I have a greater command of the languages we use because I am not relying on an AI to guess syntax for me.
- cphoover 7y agoWhat IDE uses AI for autocomplete??? That would be interesting to read about. As an aside point taken. I feel the same way, about using VIM+Terminal for coding.
- anthk 7y agoAvoid tiling, it sucks. Switch to a keyboard drivable WM such as CWM. You can use keybindings to resize, tag, delete windows without botching the aspect ractio of your browser/80x25 TUI terminal. And it has an inline window-search menu which is really convenient, it can autocomplete window names too :D "xterm -T yourtitle -e nvi", then in my case I press super+a, I type "you<tab>", I press "intro", and my xterm raises up. No stupid tiling, no window resizing, no borked aspect ratio. To unclutter my screen, that's what are tags (almost like virtual desktops) for.
- vidarh 7y agoI will consider switching away from a tiling wm the day I have enough screen real estate. Until then, I want to use as much screen space as possible on actual window contents. I really could not care less about the aspect ratio of my terminal windows - the applications I use know perfectly well how to deal with resized windows.
- anthk 7y ago> I want to use as much screen space as possible on actual window contents. I was like you, until I began to use a max 2-3 open per tag/workspace. The clutter ended. Tiling is useless under Unix environments where virtual desktops are a norm since ~1989. They may worked great under DOS and pre Windows 3.1 where few things are open, not under a powerful multi virtual-display based environment with several terminals running at once.
- vidarh 7y agoI do have 2-3 open on most of my workspaces. I have 10 workspaces. It's only just about sufficient. I've used virtual desktops since my Amiga days in the mid 80's - they are not a replacement for wasting as little of what space is actually visible at any given time.