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I found myself using separate windows more during my time with a heavily customized Manjaro install, where I used a tiling window manager and had lots of ways o

I found myself using separate windows more during my time with a heavily customized Manjaro install, where I used a tiling window manager and had lots of ways of quickly adjusting my window layout with minimal extra information needed. I think managing windows in say... Windows is terrible (even if macOS manages to be even worse). There are a few third-party applications to sort of emulate tiling WMs, but they're very clunky and software likes to act "surprised" about it and often have weird behaviours. That, and the requirement of window chrome. That being said, for your specific example of flipping through two tabs, I still find that very useful as a visual diff: get both tabs on the same scroll position and spam Ctrl+Tab and your brain will quickly generate a diff between both. The ideal solution would be actual universal diffing tools, but that's far-fetched.

Raphmedia 6y ago
> I think managing windows in say... Windows is terrible Have you tried Microsoft's FancyZones? I find it works well enough to be worth installing on all my windows computers. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/FancyZones-Overview https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/FancyZones-Overv...
- kroltan 6y ago
  Yes, though I prefer http://windowgrid.net/ http://windowgrid.net/ since I always keep relayouting windows around, at least when I tried, FZ had me going out of my way to change layouts a little bit.
userbinator 6y ago
I've tried tiling and it just doesn't feel right to me --- not being able to resize windows to the right dimensions is frustrating. I guess that's one thing I agreed with Microsoft about; the earliest versions of Windows had a tiling WM. Also, by comparison I meant reading comparison, not visual comparison. But even the latter is easier with separate windows: resize them to the same dimensions, then put them on top of each other and increase the transparency of the top one.

Raphmedia 6y ago

> I think managing windows in say... Windows is terrible Have you tried Microsoft's FancyZones? I find it works well enough to be worth installing on all my windows computers. https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/FancyZones-Overview https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/wiki/FancyZones-Overv...

kroltan 6y ago
Yes, though I prefer http://windowgrid.net/ http://windowgrid.net/ since I always keep relayouting windows around, at least when I tried, FZ had me going out of my way to change layouts a little bit.

userbinator 6y ago

I've tried tiling and it just doesn't feel right to me --- not being able to resize windows to the right dimensions is frustrating. I guess that's one thing I agreed with Microsoft about; the earliest versions of Windows had a tiling WM. Also, by comparison I meant reading comparison, not visual comparison. But even the latter is easier with separate windows: resize them to the same dimensions, then put them on top of each other and increase the transparency of the top one.