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Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by cookiengineer »

bscphil wrote: post #23
extr wrote: post #4

Komorebi works pretty well. In the end, I felt like it's limitations were mostly at the OS level rather than the fault of the software itself (similar to tiling WM on MacOs). I think for such a thing to really work, virtual desktops need to be a first class feature of the desktop environment. For Windows/Mac, they're still kind of janky. Whereas on Linux, I can bind Win+Tab to "Previous Desktop", hold down the button…

> the REST of Linux really sucks for laptops, with all the hardware-specific tweaks needed Just to state the obvious, "hardware-specific tweaks" are hardware-specific. It is not hard, these days, to buy hardware where everything just works out of the box. It doesn't make sense to say that in general Linux sucks for laptops when what you're complaining about is a problem caused by your hardware.

What's pretty surrealistic in this discussion is that MacOS in comparison cannot even run on all that hardware.

And Windows won't either because driver support ended a long time ago when you use old hardware.

Of course Linux sucks, but it only does so because it has the issue of trying to run anywhere with no default settings enforced, because those would fail anyways.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by cookiengineer »

blondin wrote: post #48
bscphil wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the REST of Linux really sucks for laptops, with all the hardware-specific tweaks needed Just to state the obvious, "hardware-specific tweaks" are hardware-specific. It is not hard, these days, to buy hardware where everything just works out of the box. It doesn't make sense to say that in general Linux sucks for laptops when what you're complaining about is a problem caused by your hardware.

i bought a laptop from a linux-first company. a laptop designed for linux, with custom hardware and OS and all. i feel very miserable using it. my solace is that it is not my main device. on this very day, i had to disable tap-to-click on the trackpad. so no, comments like the above are true. i would not recommend a linux laptop to anyone. the used Thinkpad and Dell folks are the exceptions, not the norm.

Maybe you have issues with the synaptics driver? In case you do, I wrote an in-depth configuration guide for it a while ago [1]. Maybe this helps?

[1] https://cookie.engineer/weblog/articles/synaptics-touchpad-o...

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

#53

Post by bscphil »

blondin wrote: post #48
bscphil wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the REST of Linux really sucks for laptops, with all the hardware-specific tweaks needed Just to state the obvious, "hardware-specific tweaks" are hardware-specific. It is not hard, these days, to buy hardware where everything just works out of the box. It doesn't make sense to say that in general Linux sucks for laptops when what you're complaining about is a problem caused by your hardware.

i bought a laptop from a linux-first company. a laptop designed for linux, with custom hardware and OS and all. i feel very miserable using it. my solace is that it is not my main device. on this very day, i had to disable tap-to-click on the trackpad. so no, comments like the above are true. i would not recommend a linux laptop to anyone. the used Thinkpad and Dell folks are the exceptions, not the norm.

Shrug the last laptop we purchased was a boring Dell Inspiron. Wiped Windows and put Arch Linux on it the day we got it without even checking any compatibility stuff. Everything worked out of the box, nothing has ever needed to be configured or crashed. This is 11th gen Intel, nothing old.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by philliphaydon »

yellow_postit wrote: post #47
philliphaydon wrote: post #33

Has anyone used the tiling in the new Windows 11 update? How does that compare?

Haven't found any hotkeys, but for mouse-based it's nice and simple. My favorite is still Spectacle for MacOS, haven't found a perfect equivalent for Windows yet.

I used to use that on MacOS too! Yeah it was great.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

#55

Post by darthrupert »

extr wrote: post #4

Komorebi works pretty well. In the end, I felt like it's limitations were mostly at the OS level rather than the fault of the software itself (similar to tiling WM on MacOs). I think for such a thing to really work, virtual desktops need to be a first class feature of the desktop environment. For Windows/Mac, they're still kind of janky. Whereas on Linux, I can bind Win+Tab to "Previous Desktop", hold down the button…

Anecdote: my gaming laptop from 2022 doesn't work on Windows 10/11. It keeps hard crashing when stressed.

On Linux, it's totally stable on identical workloads.

Personally, I don't see reason anymore for the existence of Windows. For a long time it held its ground as a gaming OS, but Steam/Proton has taken that final advantage from it.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by runjake »

bsnnkv wrote: post #5
extr wrote: post #4

Komorebi works pretty well. In the end, I felt like it's limitations were mostly at the OS level rather than the fault of the software itself (similar to tiling WM on MacOs). I think for such a thing to really work, virtual desktops need to be a first class feature of the desktop environment. For Windows/Mac, they're still kind of janky. Whereas on Linux, I can bind Win+Tab to "Previous Desktop", hold down the button…

I really appreciate this comment, I think it is spot on. The official Win32 API for interacting with Virtual Desktops[1] is severely (deliberately?) lacking. There are some brave souls who are constantly reverse-engineering and figuring out how to interact with Virtual Desktops in all the ways that are missing from the official Win32 API, but this is a constant game of whack-a-mole because you never know when an upda…

I’m on mobile but there’s a preference to set the animation delay for the macOS virtual desktop switching to zero and it’ll basically run as fast or at least look as fast as Linux switching.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by egeozcan »

blondin wrote: post #48
bscphil wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the REST of Linux really sucks for laptops, with all the hardware-specific tweaks needed Just to state the obvious, "hardware-specific tweaks" are hardware-specific. It is not hard, these days, to buy hardware where everything just works out of the box. It doesn't make sense to say that in general Linux sucks for laptops when what you're complaining about is a problem caused by your hardware.

i bought a laptop from a linux-first company. a laptop designed for linux, with custom hardware and OS and all. i feel very miserable using it. my solace is that it is not my main device. on this very day, i had to disable tap-to-click on the trackpad. so no, comments like the above are true. i would not recommend a linux laptop to anyone. the used Thinkpad and Dell folks are the exceptions, not the norm.

I got a windows laptop from my employer. In one week, sound stopped working. I had to follow the instructions here to fix it:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkCentre-A-E-M-S-Series/Fix-...

Then it stopped working on nearly every Windows Update after.

I'm not going to argue that under Linux there would be less problems or something crazy like that, but Windows has its own share of problems as well.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by sedatk »

j1elo wrote: post #32

Offtopic but beautiful: komorebi is my favorite word in the category of "complex things in my language, for which other languages have a succint word", and in japanese it means the beams formed by light and shadows when sunlight shines through tree leaves

We call them godrays.

Re: Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust

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Post by sedatk »

brokenmachine wrote: post #11
qwerty456127 wrote: post #2

Very nice although I feel perfectly happy with MS FancyZones.

I like FancyZones too, but it's all mouse-based. You can't even bind a shortcut to send a window to a specific zone.

Win+Arrows work in sequence for some, fyi.
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