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The Future Is Niri

The worst "street-cred" I have is that I've been using tiling window managers for thirty-five percent of my life: five years with Sway and two...

The Sway IRC was silent to my pleads for help, and I had developed a Pavlovian response to clicking on text to highlight it—a burst of panic in my chest as I dread the mouse continuing to drag after I had let go. Naturally, instead of figuring out what library made a breaking change and spending four hours running git bisect, I decided to throw nearly a decade of muscle-memory and workflow refinements out the window. After many many years of optimizing for the wrong thing with Sway, Niri blesses me with the realization that I can have the speed of a traditional tiling window manager without the space limitations.

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