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I maintain a tiling window manager for Windows[1]. It's the only thing still keeping me on Windows right now. I run NixOS on WSL, and I have a separate NixOS de
by bsnnkv 4y ago
I maintain a tiling window manager for Windows[1]. It's the only thing still keeping me on Windows right now. I run NixOS on WSL, and I have a separate NixOS desktop partition that I iterate on from time to time.
Once I can make my tiling window manager X11-compatible, I think that will be it for me and Windows. The last update totally screwed me to the extent that I had to go into the registry and manually set my user profile path to get all my settings back, all because the update couldn't handle a symlink in the C:\Users dir, which I had to use because there is no sane way to do something as simple as changing the user directory name.
[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
- account-5 4y agoGenuine question, but what's wrong with the tiling window managers already available for Linux?
- bsnnkv 4y agoThey are all beautiful works of software, but nothing can really compare to the seamless experience of using a tool that you have designed to meet all of your needs from the ground-up. This is the downside of building your own tools (well)- once you have experienced how good life can be with those tools, it's very hard to go back to working with tools that are not designed with all of the same intricacies in mind.
- saratogacx 4y agoWhile I don't use the tool (I use Windows Power Toys for my tiled window management) I have to give a shout out on the amazing github readme. That is lovingly complete and I wasn't left wondering how any of it worked.
- bsnnkv 4y agoThank you! Usually the only feedback that I get on the README is that it is "too long", so I really appreciate this comment. :)