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> Most of the time we work on a single maximized application I’m not sure who the “we” is here but I don’t. I don’t go to the extent of the sibling comments AT

> Most of the time we work on a single maximized application I’m not sure who the “we” is here but I don’t. I don’t go to the extent of the sibling comments ATP link (worth a listen btw, toward the end of the episode from memory) but I have half a dozen windows open at any one time and it’s very rare I will make something full screen or just two side by side. Even if constrained to my laptop screen I will usually have 3 or 4 windows open and not as just an even split of the screen. I have colleagues who work in Mac full screen mode and I get motion sick watching them move between (and forget the location of) different apps and windows.

kkfx 2y ago
Well, we meaning the most common kind of users, techies or newbies or luser all together: most part of humans today use a desktop like a browser bootloader, to a point someone have invented "the Chromebook" because of that, bringing also a limited kind of tab-based UI to the masses. Allow me a question: when you read your emails how many windows you use for that? Personally I use one (notmuch-emacs) or two (notmuch+a note), when you buy some stock do you use some full screen software (no matter if local or web) to see market data or you have many other windows shown at the same time? These are just two example of common activities. Of course if you are a frontend programmer you probably have much more stuff shown all your work time, but I bet none of them specially overlapping. That's is the "we" I, a bit arrogantly, use above... > I have colleagues who work in Mac full screen mode and I get motion sick watching them move between (and forget the location of) different apps and windows. I use Emacs/EXWM and well, yes, often I forgot some buffers/X11 apps open, but who care? The point is that anything is at my fingertips. I can easily create windows layout, or save-and-restore them, I can easy flip windows (mode-line-other-buffer bound to a keystroke) is MUCH more efficient than moving the mouse around.

kkfx 2y ago

Well, we meaning the most common kind of users, techies or newbies or luser all together: most part of humans today use a desktop like a browser bootloader, to a point someone have invented "the Chromebook" because of that, bringing also a limited kind of tab-based UI to the masses. Allow me a question: when you read your emails how many windows you use for that? Personally I use one (notmuch-emacs) or two (notmuch+a note), when you buy some stock do you use some full screen software (no matter if local or web) to see market data or you have many other windows shown at the same time? These are just two example of common activities. Of course if you are a frontend programmer you probably have much more stuff shown all your work time, but I bet none of them specially overlapping. That's is the "we" I, a bit arrogantly, use above... > I have colleagues who work in Mac full screen mode and I get motion sick watching them move between (and forget the location of) different apps and windows. I use Emacs/EXWM and well, yes, often I forgot some buffers/X11 apps open, but who care? The point is that anything is at my fingertips. I can easily create windows layout, or save-and-restore them, I can easy flip windows (mode-line-other-buffer bound to a keystroke) is MUCH more efficient than moving the mouse around.