Scott Jenson
I don't think there is a substantial difference in #UX between #MacOS and #Win11. There are lots of visual 'skinning' tweaks but the basic structural model of files/folders/2d windowing/invisible clipboard feels pretty baked at this point.
Are there any #Linux distros that break the mold? Shake things up a bit?
My point is that I feel *all* desktop #UXs have pretty much stagnated and no one is really trying anything different. I'd LOVE to hear of any crazy experiments.
Kyle Taylor
@scottjenson Yeah. #i3 / #sway in the #Linux world. They are a totally different, keyboard driven, UX. Appeals to developers and people that want to multitask without using a mouse. Which takes some getting used to. IMO, the best things in free unix environments are on the command line. If you stick with it, the speed and performance gains are unparalleled.
On the GUI side, I think most other free desktops are different takes on windows / mac os. Which is fine. But not exciting.
phiofx
@kta @scottjenson did not know about #sway, after a quick look it feels indeed like an interesting take in a fertile direction (For most of the time fighting windows with a mouse feels like a waste of time and energy without obvious benefit).
Is it a mode that could be reasonably emulated in #kde?
Thinking that the concept might also give a usability boost to small android screens running #termux (some of us still dream of physical keyboards on mobile)
Børge
@scottjenson Don't know how revolutionary it is, but the Huperplane file manager is testing switching folders for tags https://github.com/kra-mo/hyperplane
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