Best Thing I Discovered Using Linux! (After One Month)

Best Thing I've Discovered Using Linux! (After One Month)
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[Omsamara]

Should be titled "My experience using a tiling manager"

[jathins]

That feeling you have when you are a starter in programming and when you write a line of code in terminal or cmd. And that feeling when you press enter and it works.
It feels heart blown up with happiness.

[mdotmertens]

Next up: "Why Vim is better than an IDE and why I ditched my mouse..."

This was the path it took for me after discovering tiling window-managers.

[papyrus]

I would strongly advice to bind a key to open your terminal. Most people use the superkey + enter.

[panastiwari]

Next video: The best thing about Vim and how to quit it.

[andredepaulagomes]

If you are a Linux user, consider downloading sxhkd. Distro hopping and clean installs without having to reconfigure every single keyboard shortcut.

[tahiraslamm]

Why not create more desktops? Specially for Spotify

[TheBlueChalk]

I love i3wm because there's a bottom bar that shows your workspaces open and also system info like network, space, load, memory, battery stats, and time

[mr_cupcakes]

oh guys, imagine when he gets to virtual workspaces

also: I don't suffer the problem of having too many windows opened, I try to organize the task I'm doing in each workspace and try not to do too many at once

[crazymonkeyVII]

Hi! Great video, but as a tiling wm user myself (DWM), I'd like to comment on your use of BSPWM. I haven't used that one specifically, although I've heard good things about it. One thing that really helps having more windows open in a tiling wm, is to use workspaces/tags. By organizing your windows by function (mail, general browsing, youtube, work, teams, etc) and dedicating certain workspaces/tags for these specific tasks, you can end up with way more windows (that you're using) open and still having organized screens. If I need to check email? Alt+1. Need spaces for work? Alt+2/3/4. Teams? Alt+5. Youtube? Alt+6. Need more space for work? Alt+7/8/9. Organizing it this way I don't have to think about it too much, everything is muscle memory.

[revowolf]

I must admit, that intro is one of the best ones here on youtube I've seen.

[adammoussa]

did he started watching DistroTube and Luke Smith yet?

[sohampal]

Pop OS has tiling window manager built in :)

And Thanks Kalle, I took inspiration from you and have started touch typing :)

[williamseipp]

everyone uses a different tool, but the tiling wm Ive stuck with is xmonad. Highly configurable, works with multiple monitors, etc. It takes investment of time to learn but it's been flexible and powerful enough for me justify the time I spent.

careful with configuring your linux environment. Today it's just a tiling window manager. Next week you could be looking up hex color codes so you can configure your terminal to match vim and wondering why there's a color mismatch between your tmux theme and vim. Then you figure out it's that your terminal that doesn't support 256 colors and yeah... it's a rabbit hole.

one word of advice: have your config files under version control. When your environment becomes custom tailored to your workflow and you've spent endless hours on it, they become more valuable than your computer.

[_wassaname_]

Tile windows feature comes inbuilt in POP OS

[Eisbar]

My best combo for productivity on windows in terms of managing the windows and space:
1. Hide all the clutter on the taskbar (search, stock pinned apps, that multitasking icon etc, also all the tray icons you don't use really often (I only have volume for switching audio outputs))
2. Place the taskbar to the side of the screen rather than top/bottom for more vertical space. Some folks prefer autohiding it altogether, I don't.
3. Virtual desktops that combine similar tasks within 1 desktop (e.g. 1 main work, 2 messaging, 3 auxiliary work/music, etc)
4. Snapping windows. Drag your window to the side of the screen for 1/2 screen split, to the edge for 1/4 split. Works fine without PowerToys if you don't mind spending a minute on arranging windows once in the morning for the rest of your day.
5. MX Master 3 mouse with gestures and assignable keys. I have mapped: 1-key switching desktops and Enter key, gesture-enabled media and volume controls.
*6. PowerToys with Fancy Zones. Useful if, a) you need more complex arrangement than snapping allows for, or b) you have a large screen (over 27") or ultrawide/superultrawide screen. I don't use it personally now but I can see myself start using it again with a larger screen than my current 27" 16:9.
*7. Compact layouts for your apps if allowed for by the ones you use.

[KingJellyfishII]

I've been using i3-gaps for a while and I have to say, get yourself some workspaces! Having everything open at once is all well and good until you want to quickly switch to doing something else, or if you want to have your music in the background not taking up screenspace, or if you want to play a full screen game but not close your coding stuff.

[crystalw]

I had an idea for a browser plugin to remind me every hour to close more tabs, but this works fine too lol

[TheHermitHacker]

Im dual booting Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10 on a brand new Dell XPS 13 2-n-1. I use the Ubuntu side for a internet radio broadcast studio setup on the go. I love Linux.

[ovekarlsson]

Side note, when in Win10, FancyZones in PowerToys.