Re:MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux
by michaelmrose on Friday September 25, 2020 @02:57PM
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There are so many possible graphical environments on Linux. Gnome for all its faults isn't really windows lite. KDE has a LOT more functionality built in than windows is liable to just with kwin. With KDE + compiz + plugins the amount of functionality explodes, if you enable the close animation where all windows break into pieces and fly off screen literally.
In 2009ish I had a ui where you could zoom out to a giant wall and rearrange all the windows on your virtual desktops and use a macish expose to bound to a mouse key to pick from the windows on the current desktop. The visual metaphor was better than macs and windows and to boot there were so many knobs you could tweak virtually anything.
Tiling window managers like i3wm and 17 more are both minimal and powerful. Notably i3 has MUCH more powerful keybindings and treats individual monitors as virtual desktops.
With xmonad your window manager is a haskell program with awesome a lua one.
If you want to go all in on emacs you can make it your window manager too.
Honestly its only windows lite if you want it to be so and really everyone is basically xerox lite to some degree or another because we are basically using the same basic metaphors described therein.
In 2009ish I had a ui where you could zoom out to a giant wall and rearrange all the windows on your virtual desktops and use a macish expose to bound to a mouse key to pick from the windows on the current desktop. The visual metaphor was better than macs and windows and to boot there were so many knobs you could tweak virtually anything.
Tiling window managers like i3wm and 17 more are both minimal and powerful. Notably i3 has MUCH more powerful keybindings and treats individual monitors as virtual desktops.
With xmonad your window manager is a haskell program with awesome a lua one.
If you want to go all in on emacs you can make it your window manager too.
Honestly its only windows lite if you want it to be so and really everyone is basically xerox lite to some degree or another because we are basically using the same basic metaphors described therein.