Comment by WD-42

Comment by WD-42 13 hours ago

5 replies

To me it’s not even the tiling. It’s the ability to switch focus to windows in a directional manner. Like super hjkl or whatever.

I have no idea how people are still using alt tab in 2025.

baq 10 hours ago

> I have no idea how people are still using alt tab in 2025.

Everything is full screen almost always. In a week I need windows tiled for maybe 2h.

  • WD-42 6 hours ago

    This sounds like madness to me. At the least, browser + editor to view hot reloading output or docs at the same time. Terminal for tailing output.

    • baq 4 hours ago

      There’s a second monitor for those times when it’s an unquestionable benefit. Most of the time having multiple windows open is inefficient use of screen real estate (I either have two or three panes in the IDE - the terminal is also here, a browser with console open, some db query tool with wide tables or corp chat, which I explicitly do not want to see when I’m working on anything of substance.)

  • wongogue 6 hours ago

    This workflow is even easier on a Tiling WM.

    These days I use niri which at its core, is just Alt-Tab blown up as your actual desktop.

    • baq 4 hours ago

      The point is I don’t need any wm for this workflow. It just works on any box regardless of OS.