Do you need a DE? I use sway and a few kde apps (konsole, okular, gwenview, dolphin) + firefox and thunderbird, I wouldn’t call that a DE…

if you want i3 but on wayland, you could try sway. It is exactly that, you can even reuse most of your i3 config file.

When I used it, I mostly switched between the 9 apps in my favorites/dock with the Meta+digit shortcuts. I rarely used anything besides those 9, and then I just used alt tab. It worked really well, no complaining.

Today it’s mostly the same, but with a tiling window manager and the same numbers: 3 is thunderbird, 5 is file browser for instance. It’s muscle memory at this point, feels great.

Oh God, I remember the monthly format C and reinstall windows xp, followed by the dreaded service packs installation. That was how I fixed problems.

Thanks for the thoughtful reply and the links.

When you spent time tinkering on your linux box, at least you usually learn some piece of knowledge that can be applied later on.

When you tinker and debug something on windows, you usually have little idea of what went wrong and can derive very little from the experience. At least that was the case back when I still used windows, in the XP and vista days.

I use debian at work, but for various reasons I use my own laptop for work. Couldn’t stand the old MacBook they had for me.

So no, I never switch back to being a normal user.

I love debian because it’s always there for you.

Interesting. Kept it in my wallabag, if I ever grow tired of sway.

I use vim macros all the time. For example, you have a bunch of lines that need the same 3 operations done:

• insert " at the beginning of the line
• insert ", at the end on the line
• indent

Press qa, do what you need to do on one line and go one line below, press q again to stop recording the macro, then you can do it 50 times with 50@a.

I’d build my own. More seriously, I’d use a mac, but would pester all day, like the few weeks I tried macOS at work before bringing my own computer.

Setting up my weird keyboard layout :

• on Linux, it’s either there during the install, or sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration on debian
• on MacOS, it’s endless messing around with some weird bundle file in some specific folder but it depends on MacOS versions and the file manager won’t let you know where you are exactly nor type a folder path

Setting up a keyboard shortcut to launch a terminal with Meta+Return:

• on Linux, it might vary depending on your wm or DE, but it’s always easy
• on MacOS, you have a weird app to script actions, but I never managed to make it happen

Using a tiling window manager:

• install i3wm
• forget about it.

Honestly, you don’t need any app. I’m using Firefox on mobile and it’s way better than the app I tried.

my bad. I guess city and road planning is very car-centric as well.

You live in the US I presume?

Here in Lyon, France, the local government is removing car lanes downtown so we get wider bike lanes. Some are not happy about it, but if you look at the number of people passing through at rush hour, cyclists really outnumber cars, and bike traffic is never jammed.

I refuse to bike on this kind of lane. I just bike on the road, f that.