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  • I solved exactly that problem I and I sell it to those willing: https://race-term.com

    It is multiplexer so survives app kills, and interface is heavily keyboard driven.

    I tried running email in it though resigned (and guess what, wrote my own) because HTML email support is must have nowadays.

    by xlii
  • > My notes in Apple Notes belong to Apple Notes, not my filesystem. My texts live in iMessage's database, not my Documents folder.

    This is why as a Mac user I don't use those apps. Nor do I use Photos or whatever iTunes is called now. I've been burned too many times by having my work locked away in some kind of proprietary Apple database. Yes, you can usually export stuff but that's not a solution. You export your library on Day 1, do some work, and then export it again on Day 2. Quick, what changed? Where's the primary source of truth?

    File systems are universal and files are portable. Any app that uses a proprietary database as its primary source of truth is an app I won't be using.

    by dreamcompiler
  • Niri or Umbriel with Noctalia shell is a wonderful experience, you can get similar on Mac with OmniWM. I briefly tried komorebi for windows too.
    by anonreplier
  • how can this not refer to emacs?

    emacs -> screen -> tmux -> tmux integrated into <terminal app>

    appears to be the path.

    I guess the fork was "emacs before X" to "emacs after X but we retrofiited some ideas from X into the terminal" -> <the rest is history>

    by ggm
  • Kind of weird that the author does not make clear what a "normal person" is, despite this being a central concept to their article.

    Personally I don't think it is normal to be unable to double click on i3wm in some graphical apt wrapper and then pick it from a scroll list at login. People use shortcuts in Windows all the time. Having more than one workspace might have been foreign to most a decade or two ago, but these days external monitors are common and workspaces are basically that.

    I've seen people who I would not consider abnormal go from weird misconceptions about i3wm to efficiently sending around windows between workspaces and screens in a day. If you want you can also click your way through it, and configuration is generated for you after you decide whether you want Alt or Super as the core command key. Defaults are rather sensible, so you don't have to fiddle with them until you've got some experience.

    Historically user interfaces on web pages and in Windows and Mac OS:s has changed quite a bit and people who I think most would consider normal managed to adapt.

    by cess11
  • All of his wishes for window management are easily solved with i3 or a similar tiling wm. Even on macOS you can get a shitty version of it with yabai and skhd (both are awesome, it is entirely macos' fault that it still sucks).
    by treadmill
  • Interesting and expansive post about what the modern desktop experience should be like, and most of it has nothing to do with Tmux except if you squint in some very particular way.
    by ssivark
  • > The concept of "filesystem" is an increasingly weak concept.

    Yeah because Apple has broken that idea over and over and over. The anti-unix unix.

    by gizajob

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