The reviews for this are really bad
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2024
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Haven't heard about the "PolyForm Strict License" before. It looks to be a young project, yet feature rich.
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Nice, love to see more alternatives in this space. I'm currently using GlazeWM, which provides an i3-like experience on Windows. To the ones saying 'just switch to Linux', I used Linux full-time for many years but switched back to use Windows-only software, and a tiling WM and a package manager like Scoop goes a long way in making it more bearable.
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I fully expect a Windows update to break this somehow. Good for this dev though and it'll be nice to have this software out there. Hopefully they don't have to fight against Microsoft's bullshit just to grow a user base.
Anyone who uses this should be considering switching to Linux though. Maybe that's the dev's long game. :b
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Look what they have to do to to mimic a fraction of our power
This is absolutely nuts—even macOS doesn’t have a single program that does all of this.
windows users will do anything but switch to linux
Unfortunately, Linux isn't quite there yet for casual users. I tried it every year, and there was always something that was annoying enough that I switched back to Windows with O&O ShutUp10. This is the first year that I've been happy enough with my install that I've started using it as my daily OS. But even this year, I had 2 really annoying issues that I had to spend time searching to fix.
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After putting my computer to sleep, it would immediately wake back up. Eventually found out it was my Logitech wireless dongle that was causing the issue. I had to create a script that disabled USB ports during sleep and a systemd service to make sure it activated on every boot.
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After waking from sleep, my screen was black with only my cursor visible. Running
sudo systemctl restart display-managersometimes worked, but that wasn't a solution. After searching the web some more, I found an arch wiki explaining that it was an issue with my Nvidia GPU. So then I had to edit a modprobe file and finally I was happy with my install.
I'm super happy that I can finally use Linux full-time, but the fact I had to mess around in terminal to fix the issues associated with my hardware means most casual users will just go straight back to Windows. I've seen a lot of Linux users say, "just don't use Nvidia", but buying a new GPU isn't a solution for most people. My hardware isn't even that weird: AMD 5800x3d, x570 chipset, Nvidia GPU. Linux is getting there, it's closer than it's ever been. But it's not there yet.
My 75 year old father have been running linux for 20 years now. All in all, i know about 7 super casual users that are running linux only, without any real issues.
Its definitely there for the casual users. Its just not really there for the Windows "power"users lol
It still depends on the hardware you have. If you have hardware that’s fully supported by the kernel version your distro is running, then it’s easy. But as soon as you add a piece of hardware that isn’t, there’s a good chance you need to spend a lot of time searching how to fix it. Buying a new mouse and all of a sudden not having sleep work is not a power user problem IMO.
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Some are forced to use windows due to workplace requirements or software only running on windows. I run linux everywhere I can, but don't always have the choice.
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As a long time Windows user (~30 years), it comes down to “can I fix this if something goes wrong?”. This applies even more so when I'm talking about a computer that my wife might be using.
99.9% of the time, the answer is "yes" when it comes to windows.
Every time I've tried Linux, some experience breaking issue comes up within hours/days of starting it up, and I simply don't have time to troubleshoot it.
No matter how "stable" and "easy" someone claims Linux to be, I've never had a stable or easy experience in the last 20 years of trying to use Linux. I hate that fact, but that is a fact for me.
I assume you've never used Linux long enough to get a grip. You would get there if you use it long enough.
However, operating systems are just tools. Use which one is easy for you. If you have no spare time to learn a new OS, just use what you know. Though Microsoft's latest shenanigans really force some people to switch to other OSes.
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This seems cool, but hasn't Windows 11 started blocking some different apps that replace parts of the UI?
it you're messing with desktop environments and tiling window managers it sounds like you probably know enough to just use Linux instead with any of the hundreds of DEs and WMs
Yes, as soon as all software you use in windows becomes cross platform. Big no-no if you use anything Adobe. Yes, there are good alternatives to Adobe, but if your colleagues use Adobe and you need software to work with their files, then maybe tiling window managers in windows is more realostic than just using linux.
Yep, someone made DE for Binbows in Typescript and Rust.
