Why cant they invent a tiling VM where you can resize the tiles using the mouse, and where volume and brightness keys work

I meant tiling WM lol

@hyde@loli.pizza Works on my machine

@miria@pleroma.miria.love What WM

@hyde@loli.pizza Any. You can bind keys to amixer or some other program to change the volume. Same with brightnessctl (or writing to /sys/class/backlight directly) and brightness.

@hyde@loli.pizza Then don't use a window manager.

@miria@pleroma.miria.love I DONT WANT TO CONFIGURE BILLION THINGS FOR BASIC FUNCTIONALITY

@miria@pleroma.miria.love Why cant they invent a preconfigured WM?

@hyde@loli.pizza Every WM comes with a pre-defined configuration. And because the whole point of a window manager is to configure it yourself. If you don't want that use a desktop environment.

@hyde@loli.pizza This is like complaining you have to aim in a first person shooter. Yeah, that's the entire point. Play something else if you don't like aiming.

@hyde@loli.pizza Those are called DEs.

@miria@pleroma.miria.love I disagree, I think a just werks sane defaults WM would be convienient

@miria@pleroma.miria.love The DE/WM binary divide is a false dichotomy

@hyde@loli.pizza Not really. A DE is a WM with a bunch of extra programs. You can install a DE if you want things to just werk, or you can install a WM and customize it yourself and use whatever extra programs you want.

@hyde@loli.pizza If you ask me, a WM has a higher barrier of entry and required knowledge than a DE, but after that initial hurdle configuring and using a WM is easier. I've tried Xfce, KDE, and even GNOME 3, and I always come back to my WM because I already have everything set up exactly the way I want it to be.

@hyde@loli.pizza >a tiling VM where you can resize the tiles using the mouse, you can do that in awesomewm, it also lets you use mouse to move tiles around. it has a lot of sane defaults and functionality ootb, though I don't remember if the volume and brightness keys are built in

@hyde@loli.pizza @miria@pleroma.miria.love nah WMs are for people who have too much time on their hands and can afford to dick around whereas DEs are for people who have shit they need to get done LMAO

@miria@pleroma.miria.love I know I use a WM too and I get shit done with it, but that's because I already got done dicking around with it enough so it's basically a personal DE, I haven't touched my config in a couple years

@wysteria2@pl.wysteriary.art Yeah basically https://pleroma.miria.love/notice/A5m2NSJqKb8QFJO7Jw

@wysteria2@pl.wysteriary.art Yeah, I actually installed awesome and it seems pretty good Volume control wasn't built in though