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> windows should be square found the Windows 8 enthusiast! haha, I kid. (I myself use a tiling window manager , i3, with completely square windows without any

> windows should be square found the Windows 8 enthusiast! haha, I kid. (I myself use a tiling window manager , i3, with completely square windows without any gaps or rounding)

doubled112 6mo ago
Haha, Windows had square windows long before 8. If I could run the Windows 2000 UI on a modern OS I would but any recent clone/theme/etc feels too uncanny valley.
paulddraper 6mo ago
Not having i3 is truly the worst part about Macs. (Yes, please tell me about some buggy half-compatible tiling window manager for my Mac.)
- porphyra 6mo ago
  For real. Doesn't help that the three/four finger swipe between full screen windows/workspaces has a mandatory animation that you can't disable (you can turn on "reduce motion", but it simply changes the scrolling animation into an equally time-wasting fading animation).
- bee_rider 6mo ago
  Surely MacOS has some nice virtual machine that you could run Linux in?
  - lostlogin 6mo ago
    UTM.
  - porphyra 6mo ago
    Virtual machines aren't the solution for day-to-day computing though. You're missing out on the graphics acceleration, being able to plug things in that just work, and so on.
  - paulddraper 6mo ago
    If you're running your UI on a Linux VM....why not just used Linux?
- pastel8739 6mo ago
  You were being sarcastic, but aerospace is100% worth setting up
bee_rider 6mo ago
I like rounding the corners on i3. It is a bit wasteful but the base WM is so efficient with my pixels that I have some to spare.
dsr_ 6mo ago
My custom XFWM theme has square corners on windows without focus and large-radius rounded corners on the one window with focus. The square corners are part of a 2 pixel wide border (one black, one white) because who needs to waste space on handling things we aren't manipulating? But the title bar is high-contrast, because you'll go looking for it when you want to switch windows. The round corners go with a fairly thick border in a customizable color, usually something very bright in the yellow, orange or cyan ranges. When you sit down, you should immediately know what is active.

> windows should be square found the Windows 8 enthusiast! haha, I kid. (I myself use a tiling window manager , i3, with completely square windows without any gaps or rounding)

doubled112 6mo ago

Haha, Windows had square windows long before 8. If I could run the Windows 2000 UI on a modern OS I would but any recent clone/theme/etc feels too uncanny valley.

paulddraper 6mo ago

Not having i3 is truly the worst part about Macs. (Yes, please tell me about some buggy half-compatible tiling window manager for my Mac.)

porphyra 6mo ago
For real. Doesn't help that the three/four finger swipe between full screen windows/workspaces has a mandatory animation that you can't disable (you can turn on "reduce motion", but it simply changes the scrolling animation into an equally time-wasting fading animation).
bee_rider 6mo ago
Surely MacOS has some nice virtual machine that you could run Linux in?
- lostlogin 6mo ago
  UTM.
- porphyra 6mo ago
  Virtual machines aren't the solution for day-to-day computing though. You're missing out on the graphics acceleration, being able to plug things in that just work, and so on.
- paulddraper 6mo ago
  If you're running your UI on a Linux VM....why not just used Linux?
pastel8739 6mo ago
You were being sarcastic, but aerospace is100% worth setting up

bee_rider 6mo ago

I like rounding the corners on i3. It is a bit wasteful but the base WM is so efficient with my pixels that I have some to spare.

dsr_ 6mo ago

My custom XFWM theme has square corners on windows without focus and large-radius rounded corners on the one window with focus. The square corners are part of a 2 pixel wide border (one black, one white) because who needs to waste space on handling things we aren't manipulating? But the title bar is high-contrast, because you'll go looking for it when you want to switch windows. The round corners go with a fairly thick border in a customizable color, usually something very bright in the yellow, orange or cyan ranges. When you sit down, you should immediately know what is active.