Comment by baq

Comment by baq 10 hours ago

4 replies

> 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.