I switched on my old iBook G4, the one with the PowerPC chip. I run Debian on that system and as it booted, I was surprised to see that Jessie seemed to be working fine.
So, I wanted to upgrade the system and ran *aptitude*. There were so many “kept” packages I was immediately annoyed. I ran *sudo aptitude dist-upgrade* and that seemed to work. As it ran, however, I noticed that there seemed to be no space left on my disk. When the upgrade finished, I had nearly 300MB. I guess running an upgrade reserves some extra space? Good for Debian!
Here’s what I did to make space:
I also did the following:
Actually I installed Amethyst for OSX on the other laptop. Perhaps tiling window managers can be a thing on this Mac, too?
#Debian
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i3, yay!
I’ve been using i3 for quite some time now. Honestly, I don’t like it, yet I’m still using it because other options are even worse.
There is something missing, but I haven’t figured out what exactly. I’ve tried a couple of things. One was a script that basically turns your workspaces into a 2d map. That is, from any workspace you can go up, down, left or right, and it will create a new workspace (or switch to existing one). Combined with named workspaces, you can create several small maps to help with your workflow. Multitasking done right? It is kinda nice sometimes, but honestly it does not work as great as it sounds, and in the end I just keep using regular workspaces.
My biggest problem is that I have too many things opened at the same time. Take a look:
https://files.progarm.org/2016-05-11-040239_429x22_scrot.png
Do you think that I remember what I have on each workspace? Not at all. Usually I just bash my keys randomly trying to find something that I need.
Perhaps one day I’ll manage to put some time into it to come up with something clever. Right now I am suffering from it badly, yet it was a huge step forward from regular window managers.
After all my experiments with keyboard layouts, I think that it finally turned into something that is highly compatible with my brain. That is, I never have to think about the keyboard or the way I use it, it all happens automatically. “I should edit that part of text with that” – **BOOM**, done, no dicking around. People who see how I type tell me that it looks incredibly fast. Well, dunno, all I know is that it is good enough to keep up with my thoughts.
But with window managers – nope. I am constantly moving stuff from one workspace to another, then moving stuff again because of course I moved it to a wrong workspace. Then, once it is moved, I have to rearrange windows so that they fit nicely into the screen. I don’t want to do that! All I want is to see a window whenever I want to see it. I don’t mind a steep learning curve, but learning what? It is fundamentally incompatible with the way I work.
… perhaps I should try a setup with 6 screens or something…
– AlexDaniel 2016-05-11 01:23 UTC
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I practically *never* use workspaces. I used to start moving the browser to a new workspace, and then forgot about it. Just minimize or hide the browser if you don’t need it. And once you start down that path, the same is true for Gimp and all the others. I find it exceedingly rare to need a collection of related windows that I would want to show and hide at the same time. For example, an editor, a shell, and a browser, when doing web development (one workspace) and another trio for a second workspace? The way I work, most of what I do happens inside the editor, and I don’t multitask too well, so if I need an editor, a shell, and a browser when doing web development, then chances are I don’t have the brain power to add more stuff to other workspaces...
Perhaps workspaces are for people who mix work and private life on the same desktop, or for people who never reboot their machines, or for people who also need more than ten tabs?
– Alex Schroeder 2016-05-11 08:40 UTC
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Yes. :D
I never reboot my machine, I mix everything, I have more than 10 tabs opened. Basically I don’t want to start everything up again if I have to make small adjustments to something. For example, if someone tells me “hey, there’s a typo in your code here”, I just switch to that workspace, change the thing and commit it. All by using windows that are already opened.
Why would you want to do it any other way? 😄
– AlexDaniel 2016-05-11 13:33 UTC
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Global Warming! 😁
– Alex Schroeder 2016-05-11 14:15 UTC
