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For me Linux offers the ultimate desktop experience: Tiling WMs. Floating desktop environments like Gnome and KDE on the other hand feel like bad OS X copies a

by leon_ 15y ago

For me Linux offers the ultimate desktop experience: Tiling WMs. Floating desktop environments like Gnome and KDE on the other hand feel like bad OS X copies and definitely are not on of Linux' strengths. On hardware: You have to watch out what you buy. If you just want to run the most bleeding edge hardware then there will probably be some sort of driver fuckup with linux. Though you might not be able to avoid the mentioned Optimus technology in a months :( On suspend/resume: I'm running Linux on an 2009 Macbook Pro and the suspend/resume works like a charm. It needs a few seconds more than OS X to wake up completely but it works. So I guess this is hardware dependent too and not a general problem with lx. Desktop software: If you want to run typical desktop software like Office, Video Editing, etc. Then yeah - Linux is probably the wrong OS for you. I'm in the lucky position to be able to do most of my work in terminals and VIM and for that there's nothing better than a Linux box with a tiling WM. I'd say Linux is not a general purpose desktop OS in its current state. But there are use cases where linux rocks. (Even on the desktop.)

Wickk 15y ago
In regards to the Tiling WM's: http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/ http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/ https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM http://windawesome.codeplex.com/ http://windawesome.codeplex.com/ OSX: http://mizage.com/divvy/ http://mizage.com/divvy/ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
- daleharvey 15y ago
  as a now mac user who previously used xmonad + ubuntu, the tiling windows experience on osx is amazingly poor with divvy / sizeup compared to a a proper tiling wm like xmonad
  - Wickk 15y ago
    I would imagine so based on what I know about it, and I personally would need someone to rip my WM from my cold dead hands but the option is there
  - leon_ 15y ago
    yes, I tested divvy too and wasn't too happy with the result.
emilsedgh 15y ago
Just to let you know, KDE's kwin has tiling support.
- usaar333 15y ago
  Related to parent: It seems KDE's is a bit limited. Chrome does not get tiled. And it seems to be impossible to say make a 2x2 grid of tiles. Anyone know how to fix/do these?

by leon_ 15y ago

Wickk 15y ago

In regards to the Tiling WM's: http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/ http://www.winsplit-revolution.com/ https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM http://windawesome.codeplex.com/ http://windawesome.codeplex.com/ OSX: http://mizage.com/divvy/ http://mizage.com/divvy/ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

daleharvey 15y ago
as a now mac user who previously used xmonad + ubuntu, the tiling windows experience on osx is amazingly poor with divvy / sizeup compared to a a proper tiling wm like xmonad
- Wickk 15y ago
  I would imagine so based on what I know about it, and I personally would need someone to rip my WM from my cold dead hands but the option is there
- leon_ 15y ago
  yes, I tested divvy too and wasn't too happy with the result.

emilsedgh 15y ago

Just to let you know, KDE's kwin has tiling support.

usaar333 15y ago
Related to parent: It seems KDE's is a bit limited. Chrome does not get tiled. And it seems to be impossible to say make a 2x2 grid of tiles. Anyone know how to fix/do these?