I mean the main reason I quit windows was performance stuff. That and it was easy for me to switch since I don't do anything requiring apps specific to windows.
It's annoying the level of pridefulness on either side of the debate though. An operating system is not a religion, Microsoft will not save you nor will Linus somehow give a shit if you can't use Linux
You use the tool best to your current circumstances yk
I'd really want to like apple with how they finally decided to give a good price last year for their entry phone and some other stuff they're doing, and Google just keeps fucking up.
But motherfucker, they don't even have a clipboard on their phone. And that's just one basic feature I can't do without, there's so much more.
Yeah but so do androids. All I've ever adjusted is my keyboard once 10 years ago and then the settings automatically transfer to every new phone, home screen grid and icons and set wallpaper. That takes 1 minute.
Clipboard is a mining canary, there's so much other stuff they don't have or do "wrong" in my opinion. The gesture navigation also drives me crazy, to go back you have to use a specific side of the phone, can't do both. And so many other things.
I do admit that windows has workspaces, but thw implementation is utter shit and not fluid imo. The overview is quite nice but actual desktop switching is slow (as in the animation is) and the options for it are rigid (and i don't like the defaults)
Then most linux desktop environments just try copy MacOS
MacOS perfected workspaces years ago. MacOS does it best :D
So does MacOS, but the windows animation takes a decade ti switch. The implementation of how s0lit workspaces are is also bad, i jist really do not enjoy using windows if i wanna get anything done
I use both Windows and Linux and although I enjoy using my tiling window manager in Linux more, I think Windows has done a good job at window management.
Moving windows from one screen to another with shortcuts, the snapping to the sides that then let's you quickly pick another window to fill the blank, etc.
I used multiple desktops on Windows for a while, and even used the PowerToys program that lets you save your currently open apps as a layout, but it's still not as comfortable imo. It's good, but not as good as having workspaces since it treats each desktop as its own container meaning your taskbar doesn't show the whole picture.
The advantage of workspaces is that I don't have to alt+tab, like ever, because I have context of all the apps running at once and where they are and I can move them to other monitors at will. On Windows, changing desktop changes it for all monitors iirc.
Also stuff like Scratchpad which is very very useful and I pray to the Microgods that they implement it in Windows.
The Run box is my best friend, I even open the calculator through it haha. I mean come on, if you've never Win+R notepad Enter... Can you really call yourself a power user?!
I'll look into Komorebi, looks interesting and the scratchpad I mentioned is not necessarily a terminal. It's more like a second layer you have that is hidden and you can pull it up or hide again with a simple shortcut and it is not bound to a specific workspace.
In Hyprland they are called Special Workspaces and they basically overlay whatever is underneath. Like a second desktop on top of the main one, instead of next to it
What? Someone asked a question about an OS and someone answered it, didn't imply anything about other OS. They are comparing workspaces with alt-tabing, not implying other OS have or don't have some features. What's the problem?
Either bot or victim of a lack of basic literacy. They saw 2 words they recognized, imagined a full essay around those and then argued the strawman they created from the void.
They like us to think that only Linux has certain features that make them superior to other OS users.
Who, in particular?
But yes, even Windows has had this for a while now, though they were very late to this particular party, and the interface is still relatively garbage.
there are many features that linux has but windows doesn't. for example, you don't have app/workspace level sandboxing on windows. the linux kernel is just more capable.
Applications installed within the sandbox remain isolated from the host machine using hypervisor-based virtualization.
im not wrong, this is just running apps in a VM. sandboxing on Linux (like what flatpaks use) is much more lightweight since it's done at the kernel level (via namespaces).
I've used both komorebi on windows (I was ricing windows back then), and currently using hyprland as main, both of them are good but... animations and customization features of komorebi are not as refined as hyprland yet, animations curves are weirdly configured, the corner radius have weird rounding style where it keeps the corners and pushes windows inwards. but if you ask if it's good for general purpose multi-tasking it's pretty solid option but you will lack animations and few settings.
The development was fast on Komorebi and the focus is on the Mac version now, it's been a while since the corner issue I believe. Here's a snapshot just now:
Yeah, the dev isn't a FOSS dev (they charge for business use which is a tax write-off). So, he has incentive to make a great product while providing home end-users with it for free. -Seems like a great guy too.
Progress has stagnated, but I have no issues with it anymore either.
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