Re:Make macOS consistently bad (unironically)
by yepguy on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:59AM
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Makes sense I guess. I mostly work with a few long-lived applications, and I hate having to do any manual window management myself.
I'm fairly sure you could use scripting to come up with a Niri workflow that worked for your use case. Maybe something like niri-scratchpad (https://github.com/Vizkid04/niri-scratchpad). But I sympathize if you don't want to spend a ton of time experimenting with your tools when you already have something that works for you.
But it answers the question of:
"Alright, whenever I want the $app window, I just go to column X of workspace Y"
Which isn't something I want for 99% of the windows I have open.
Most of my app interactions are transient where I prefer "summon $app from the ether without navigating anywhere".
For example, here are low priority apps I have open: calendar, discord, whatsapp, notes, journal, database gui.
Niri would make me find a place to put these apps in the top level and then navigate to them which doesn't match their transient nature.