On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Uriel<lost.gob...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Ray Kohler<ataraxia...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Anders Andersson<pipat...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Heh, I just started using dwm myself, and I love it! I wanted to try a >>> tiling window manager, and did some basic research and dwm seemed to >>> suit me best. I wish I did this switch years ago. I might want to try >>> wmii too, mainly because I want the possibility of a grid layout (2x2 >>> for example) rather than master+stack. >> >> I thought I really wanted the grid feature, and was using the very >> nice gapless grid patch for a while, until one day I decided to try >> doing without it and found I didn't miss it at all. > > This is a common pattern, people are convinced that they *really* need > "feature" X until they actually do try to live for a while without it > (or with a more minimalist / sane alternative), and then realize how > little real value it had. > > We see it with new Plan 9 users *all the time*. > > uriel >
The only problem with Plan9 is that, from what I've heard, its pointless to run it without X (eg. using rio). I just find that inconceivable.
