Tiling windows managers? I had a glorious i3 config once, and not long ago installed regolith on the ubuntu machine at work. Soon, on my laptop, I will try Noctalia with either Umbria or Niri.
Any WM that relies on keyboard shortcuts as the default has no future on mass market. Also when most people use tiling features in other deskops the most common split for productivity is 1/2 + 1/2 or maybe 1/2 + 1/4+1/4. Pure tiling VMs are overkill in most cases and more splits you have the smaller they get. Something like Niri might be the sweet spot, since for it 50/50 splitting is the default and doesn’t go too heavy on the keybinds and with good shell can somewhat work even without them.
The keyboard shortcuts are not as big a hurdle as asking a non tech savvy person to set up their dotfiles.
mum broke her goddamn
.vimrcagainJesus… just learn some lua, mum
I try other options now and again. When something is better I use it. Until then, I have things to do with what works.
People continue to innvote, test, and develop new options. Someday one will eventually work out a superior approach that takes off among the general userbase.
Yeah, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Desktop GUIs have been in development for decades, of course there’s going to be little to improve on. Plenty to make worse though, as we’ve seen with Windows.
