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Re: dwm

#91

Post by door103 »

IntelMiner wrote: post #76
ognarb wrote: post #52

Just in case you thought about using Suckless/dwm: They’re doing literal torch hikes through southern Germany at their conferences, fighting online against "cultural marxism", and their mail server has the hostname "Wolfsschanze" (see: https://twitter.com/pid_eins/status/1113738766471057408 ) Source: https://twitter.com/kuschku/status/1156488420413362177

Don't forget the time they waded into the Debian mailing list to argue "maybe Hitler wasn't actually bad" https://web.archive.org/web/20190404153507/https://lists.dyn...

I am not involved in suckless, but who is this "they" you are talking about? This is one individual whose only connection to suckless appears to have been starting 2 threads about surf in 2017?

https://lists.suckless.org/dev/author.html

ctrl f "enrico"

Re: dwm

#93

Post by squarefoot »

okasaki wrote: post #92
squarefoot wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mindset behind that attitude, however, is pretty much the same.

And what would that be?

Disrespect for people perceived as inferior because of limited knowledge in one field. Those elitists totally ignore that the newbie asking stupid questions about a Linux app could be the heart surgeon who one day saves their mommy's life.

Re: dwm

#94

Post by Kantberg »

squarefoot wrote: post #93
okasaki wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And what would that be?

Disrespect for people perceived as inferior because of limited knowledge in one field. Those elitists totally ignore that the newbie asking stupid questions about a Linux app could be the heart surgeon who one day saves their mommy's life.

what a stupid misunderstanding and interpolation of it! Very few software is so accessible than suckless to anyone who wishes to use and fully understand it. Reading a source of 2000 lines is a comprehensible size indeed and there's no barrier. Quite the contrary: helpful manpages, web-browsable file trees and comments in the sources, mailinglist archives, tons of reviews in blogs and youtube, irc.

Re: dwm

#95

Post by wyclif »

awsation wrote: post #88
runjake wrote: post #85

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FWIW: Not trolling, but I believe they added this setting in 2013 with Mavericks. Now, if macOS could get auto-tiling options like Linux has...

Rectangle ? https://rectangleapp.com/

Apple should really make a native tiling feature. I just don't understand why they can't seem to do that yet.

Re: dwm

#96

Post by saladuh »

jonaustin wrote: post #64
saladuh wrote: post #55

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No, the biggest feature of DWM is dynamic window tiling (pretty sure DWM stands for Dynamic Window Manager). Sway/i3 can be made to kinda dynamically tile with scripts, but it's much less consistent, less powerful, and hardly works. They are manual tilers and they don't try to be dynamic tilers. Personally I prefer being able to quickly toggle a dynamic window layout based on my current workflow, and switch back to m…

fwiw; for i3/sway I use this autotiling script: https://github.com/nwg-piotr/autotiling

Yea, I've used that before but just switching between vertical and horizontal tiling doesn't get you anywhere close to dynamic tiling and on demand layouts.

Re: dwm

#97

Post by _dh54 »

hiptobecubic wrote: post #81
CyberRabbi wrote: post #59

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Well my point is that we pretend programming can be easy by allowing people to program in JavaScript, for example. Sure this has resulted in a boon of apps but the downside is that the average quality of these apps is pretty low in terms of performance-oriented usability and probably in terms of bugs as well. I sometimes use retro computers and marvel at how well the software for those machines runs. The only differe…

I think this way over-romanticizes what that era actually produced and ignores the huge breakthroughs since then. So many things would not exist if participation was limited only to the kind of people that were writing software in the 80s and 90s. Many of the landmark brands of today were not thought up or written by such people. Also, I strongly feel like old software "runs better" because neither the OS nor the sof…

> Those things aren't "clean and simple" code and the team of 30-something 1337 guys that wrote wasn't imagining you when deciding how the program would work.

If those 1337 guys were tasked with writing software to accommodate those use cases, I’m certain it would be better than software today that accommodates those use cases

> Also it's not like these programs aren't still available. Did you write this comment using lynx? Do you do your finances with "gnome spreadsheet?" Do you listen to music with WinAmp 2.0?

I was referring to 80s software, not 90s software. In terms of architecture, 90s software is closer to the software of today than the software of the 80s.

Re: dwm

#98

Post by hiptobecubic »

_dh54 wrote: post #97
hiptobecubic wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this way over-romanticizes what that era actually produced and ignores the huge breakthroughs since then. So many things would not exist if participation was limited only to the kind of people that were writing software in the 80s and 90s. Many of the landmark brands of today were not thought up or written by such people. Also, I strongly feel like old software "runs better" because neither the OS nor the sof…

> Those things aren't "clean and simple" code and the team of 30-something 1337 guys that wrote wasn't imagining you when deciding how the program would work. If those 1337 guys were tasked with writing software to accommodate those use cases, I’m certain it would be better than software today that accommodates those use cases > Also it's not like these programs aren't still available. Did you write this comment usin…

But they weren't directed to accommodate those use cases, even though those people existed.
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