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Love a tiling WM post! Reading the "twos days to get setup" reminds me of fighting a blank xmonad setup back in the day :-), and makes me all the more appreciative of Regolith Desktop, a super-minimal Ubuntu+i3wm (and sway) setup; everything just works, Zoom sharing, multi-window, etc. Recommended!

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And putting effort into adding every feature you need makes me appreciate it even more. I don't mean to say that humans derive value from suffering, but looking back at some of the headache and seeing that they are mostly solved now gives me this cool peace of mind. Plus, if anything breaks I know how to solve it. It is akin to moving from some batteries included distro like pop_os to arch. Nothing against pop, it is a wonderful effort, but reading through the documentation and putting your distro together gives you way more insight into the inner workings which is invaluable for when it breaks.

> reading through the documentation and putting your distro together gives you way more insight into the inner workings which is invaluable for when it breaks.

I definitely feel that way about the core libraries/frameworks I'm building my applications/codebases on top of, so can relate!

But for my WM/desktop, I'm pretty happy to a) not know it's innermost workings, and b) just have it not break in the first place! :-)

I guess we can each have our own yak-shaving preferences. :-)

I was exactly like that until kde decided it knew what was best for me and killed all the kwin scripts I relied upon with plasma 6 :(

But yeah! We can't know everything, it is very important to consciously decide what to be ignorant about. What is relevant to me might not be relevant to you and that is the beauty of it. If everyone got interested in the exact same thing, just imagine the chaos.

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