I can just give you my view. I've been a TWM user for >10 years than switched to niri via some of the sway/hype land scrolling plugins.
My problem with TWMs was always that depending on monitor size you can open 3-4 windows in a set layout (be it the tradional spirals, or H splits...) before you have to do "manual" window management (i.e. move windows into tabbed layouts, move them to new workspaces,...). So for me that generated a friction, where sometimes I just wanted e.g. to quickly open a terminal do some things but keep the rest the same, but not knowing if the terminal becomes permanent. I other words in TWMs I found myself having to know what exactly I want the window for all the time.
SWMs get rid of that friction, I just open a new window and it gets pushed to the right, while keeping windows at the perfect size and if not I can easily switch between the 3 sizes I want (never found I needed more than fullscreen half screen, third of the screen). So I simply don't have to think what I want the e.g. terminal for (something long term or just quick try) before I use it. While it sometimes makes finding the right window a little more messy (the overview really helps though), I find I end up more organised, because I keep related windows in the same workspace, while on TWMs I ended up with 3 or 4 workspaces just for temporary terminals (which made finding the right one often very messy as well).
> For Vim users, I also suggest enabling Vim mode in Zsh. It makes editing commands much faster.
I am also an avid Vim user but I disagree. The default readline is perfectly fine for single line commands (you do have to know your way around some basic commands though C-a/u/k/l/w...). To edit long commands in $EDITOR you can always do C-x C-e in bash/zsh (M-v in Fish). As a matter of fact everytime I pair program with my colleague I always think he is editing those short commands slower than I would have because he has to change modes all the time.
Changing modes is a single key stroke away. That's hardly a reason to be slow.
Readline settings depend on what you're already used to. If you're comfortable with vi key bindings, then being in normal mode, navigating with `w`/`b`, deleting a word with `dw`, deleting up to a quote with `dt"`, etc., are all done with muscle memory, and should be much faster than learning the equivalent Emacs bindings, pressing unintuitive key chords, or opening the command in an editor. I don't like opening an editor since it's an interruption, and it hides the output of the previous command.
I wish I could have the full power of Vim in my shells. For example, I miss the delete between characters binding. `di"` or `di'` are great for modifying argument values.
I like to re-add the readline binds after enabling vim mode, and then I only leave insert mode occasionally. C-x C-e really is great, though, I think I do tend to reach for that if I need to do a big edit of a one-liner.
It mostly depends on your needs, the Note Air series is good if you are on the go while the bigger models like the Note Air Max are fit for a more stationary use.
> It also has a full Android system, which comes with advantages for sure but invites distractions and leads to very disappointing battery life.
While some models have a disappointing battery life, it's most definitely because of BSR[0] not because of them running Android. I had a Note Air 3 and that thing got easily 2 weeks of battery life with heavy use while the BSR version (Note Air 3C) barely survived 2 days.
OP mentioned he took over an existing project. He would then have to track all the people who contributed in order to be able to relicense to AGPL. Even then, Anthropic would probably then write their own.
The only thing he said:
> It was the best of both worlds—easy to navigate, while remaining mousable.
Is not really convincing as Cosmic desktop for example is tiling while remaining mousable.
I have been vaguely aware of PaperWM and Niri but never saw the appeal productivity-wise.
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