What do you think of niri? I think i’m of a similar mind. I switched to i3 10ish years ago, and could never go back to a floating WM. Now on sway and am perfectly content with my workflow. I’m curious to try out niri, but haven’t really been that motivated to try it.
Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness.
Do these count as a counterexample?
Unreal World. Released in 1992. Though I didn’t first play until 2010ish when I moved to linux.
Haha yeah I agree completely. I don’t understand how anyone prefers floating windows. It just feels so clumsy to use now that i’m used to tiling.
Like how small? I tile on my 14" laptop screen and still infinitely prefer it over floating. Workspaces exist so you don’t clutter up one screen too much. Maybe people aren’t familiar with or used to taking advantage of multiple workspaces? I started using them more when i3 introduced me to a simple super+number hotkey system to switch quickly.
Sway is wayland. I’ve never used anything else. People rave about hyprland. Others in this thread have recommend plugins for the usual desktops. Probably easy enough to try one for whichever desktop you use now.
There exists a ton of youtube content creators showcasing all the tiling window managers. It’s like one of the most popular topics for linux enthusiast content creators.
Yeah, it was a revelation when I discovered tiling. I was always doing work with two windows open, and i’d spend so much time fiddling and resizing the windows. Then i’d open a third window and wouldn’t know what to do with it.
I used i3 for many years and switched to sway when migrating to wayland. It does what I need and see no reason to try hyprland or other tilers.
Most tiling window managers still have floating window capabilities, and notification popups will be on top of tiled windows.
There’s tons of youtube videos / tutorials on how to create a live usb of a distro, such as linux mint. This will allow you to boot into linux and play around without installing anything and get a feel for linux. It’s nowhere as tech wizardry as you think.
And if all your games are on steam and don’t have anti cheat things, they’ll probably just all work with proton (linux compatibility tool in steam).
I installed it yesterday and am enjoying it more than I thought I would!
Instead of doom scrolling Lemmy, I’m doom scrolling physics papers relevant to me. I can save any individual paper to my phone and transfer to my pc to read it in more depth on a bigger screen. Likely doing direct searching on arxiv might be more efficient, but making somewhat more productive use of wasting time on my phone when in bed or on the toilet is a good thing.
I would like an option for a slightly larger font. And the app going back to the top of search results after viewing an individual paper from search results is annoying.