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[-] Korkki@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 hours ago

Any WM that relies on keyboard shortcuts as the default has no future on mass market. Also when most people use tiling features in other deskops the most common split for productivity is 1/2 + 1/2 or maybe 1/2 + 1/4+1/4. Pure tiling VMs are overkill in most cases and more splits you have the smaller they get. Something like Niri might be the sweet spot, since for it 50/50 splitting is the default and doesn't go too heavy on the keybinds and with good shell can somewhat work even without them.

[-] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 11 hours ago

The keyboard shortcuts are not as big a hurdle as asking a non tech savvy person to set up their dotfiles.

[-] Korkki@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

You can build a GUI around that and many desktop environments do just that. All desktops use a config files or registries deep down, not all of them have an options menu. You drop a lifelong windows user in i3 and they will burnout within minutes trying to move a window and will quit thinking that they are stupid.

[-] tourist@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

mum broke her goddamn .vimrc again

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

it's better than grandpa fucking up his .bashrc. lol

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 8 points 9 hours ago

Jesus... just learn some lua, mum

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