#yaylinux — Public Fediverse posts
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I think anyone that has followed me or even been adjacent to anything I've said is aware that I have kind of a weird relationship with the UX of modern computers - I by far prefer terminal interfaces, and would be perfectly happy if the mouse were an invention left in the distant past. For a while I used #gnome, then switched to #hyprland. Neither was inherently bad (and I got pretty used to the hyperland way of doing things, especially the configurability), but neither particularly worked the way I think. In years past I used to enjoy #xfce, but no wayland support yet.
I spent a couple of weeks trying random window managers / compositors, but none really sat well with me - so I wound up rolling my own. riverwm recently split their compositor out from the 'desktop environment', so I was able to build on that. So now I have a #tag based interface (windows are tagged with 1 or more labels; the display shows label groups) that is almost completely keyboard driven. There's still some rough edges, especially around focus stealing and tag switching latency, but it's the 1 computer thing that I've done lately that I actually enjoyed.