Wolfgang learns just enough about a topic to make poorly reasoned statements about topics he doesn't understand that use some of the correct words. He says for

Wolfgang learns just enough about a topic to make poorly reasoned statements about topics he doesn't understand that use some of the correct words. He says for instance that he quit using tiling window managers because among other things because of the grossly overstated time required to configure screen locker and volume keys and such. However since he seems to have already sunk that 30 whole minutes there is no savings involved. He explicates reasonably well the argument for a keyboard centric workflow then casually dismisses it by asserting without argument that users endure the great burden of learning scads if keyboard shortcuts for what he asserts is no benefit after he himself articulates the benefit. How hard is it to understand shortcuts per the name are quick ways to perform an operation? He mentions web browsers as if they were some great counter argument to keyboard shortcuts. Yes it's ok if you both pick up the mouse to click something and use shortcuts too. He says that GUI apps work poorly with tiling window managers because they will be forced to a suboptimal size. Nobody is making you open 7 apps on your 12" screen. Nothing about tiling window managers keeps you from giving a particular app up to an entire monitor. This doesn't require writing rules for every app or manually resizing or indeed anything else but switching workspaces. If you want 1 window alone on one workspace and 3 on the other do you know what complex operation is required? You open 1 window switch to the second workspace and then open the other 3. He claims that you won't be able to employ keyboard shortcuts without resolving conflicts as this was a great unsolved problem. Most shortcuts aren't global and application specific shortcuts just can't conflict by nature. The traditional method for binding non conflicting shortcuts for actually global things like your wm is to bind windows key + foo to global things whereas applications get control shift alt + everything else. It's so weird to watch him thinking he's being clever and knowledgeable when he's completely talking out of his rear. If you like me watched the whole thing you know less than you started out knowing if you took him seriously.