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Comment by fullsend

4 years ago

People who write these articles will talk for an hour straight about their favorite window manager, why it should actually be called Gnu/Linux, or why it’s “free as in beer”.

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goodguyamericun  4 years ago

If you're not someone who can see that one class of window managers makes you much more productive than another, then quite frankly you're probably not a great programmer and just get by with some SO copy-paste, things might not be so good for you once the tech boom busts

  • uncletaco  4 years ago

    When I was a TA for computer science the students with tiling window managers had the worst grades in class and talked exactly like this.

  • rjh29  4 years ago

    If your choice of window manager makes a measurable relative difference to your productivity then you are probably not a good programmer.

  • amw-zero  4 years ago

    I always thought being able to design code itself was the main way to get productivity. That takes way longer than actually typing the code, and you can do it on a whiteboard / pen and paper. I’ve never used a window manager that affected my productivity in any way.

    I’m fact I’m much more productive since I stopped tweaking my Emacs config and just thought before writing code.

    • goodguyamericun  4 years ago

      That's fair but sometimes there are things I learn iteratively and fast interaction with computers comes really handy there

  • Gollapalli  4 years ago

    Bro, the amount of time I have wasted trying to rice a wm and fix broken AUR packages only to say screw it and just go back to working on Windows + WSL (well, ubuntu these days, but STOCK ubuntu).

    At the end of the day, the purpose of some things is just to get out of your way.

  • astrange  4 years ago

    Don't people who think this usually use Emacs and not any window managers?

    • jppittma  4 years ago

      I use vim. This is a bit of a troll, but the baseline feeling is that people who’ve used a tiling window manager (as a group) are probably more interested in computers than people who haven’t.

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