Tiling vs Floating

[KGIII]

I just use one desktop. Well, I do have multiple monitors, depending on where I am in the house.

But, no virtual desktops get used here. All applications are full screen other than terminals. I have a status bar on the bottom which I can use to move between applications. I actually use my mouse to switch between applications, more often than not. I somehow got out of the habit of using ALT + TAB to switch around.

 

[MikeRocor]

I'm one of those people who resists change -- probably because I like things to just work how the always do.

Nothing wrong with that.

I resist "change for the sake of change".

I was using Damn Small Linux from about 2005 but in 2008 it became clear that DSL was not going to be a viable distro going forward (there's a story there). So I changed over to Tiny Core (which I liked better anyway), got my system set up the way I wanted it and have changed it very little in the past (holy mackerel! has it been that long?) sixteen and a half years. Oh, I've "updated" a couple of dozen times, added and subtracted apps here and there... but changing to a tiling window manager - yeah... no.

Change takes effort - sometimes little effort, sometimes deep, fundamental effort - but there's always some "cost". Accepting change for no benefit just seems wrong to me. The "benefit" might simply be amusement or adventure - I'm certainly not above that - but unless the adventure turns out particularly well, it's temporary. Heck, I'm still using the wallpaper that was included in DSL 3.2 (though I sometimes, briefly, swap it out for pictures of the mutts).