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The unreasonable title fits for multiple reasons, one of which is illustrated by your comment: 1. At first glance most people don’t even see the difference bet
by addicted 3y ago
The unreasonable title fits for multiple reasons, one of which is illustrated by your comment:
1. At first glance most people don’t even see the difference between i3 and most other OSes.
2. The entire OS industry, from Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, the vast majority of Linux DEs, changed the UI every few years. The implication being that the UIs improve with those changes. The author by not changing their OS’es UI/UX and preferring that is going against the industry expectation (ie being unreasonable).
In terms of advantages of i3 over other options, there are many.
1. The UI is extremely keyboard focused. You basically never have to use a mouse unless the application itself requires it.
2. It’s trivial to add a new window and remain tiled unlike non tiling window managers where you need to manually tile.
3. Workspaces! Switching between upto 10 workspaces is trivial (I used to have 10…I’m sure you can do more but even 10 were too many for me).
4. Performance. The UI was just way faster than any other OS I’ve used even when overlayed on top of Gnome.