Interested in what makes you not like tiling window managers on a 4k display! I started using a tiling window manager when I got a much larger screen, as it made laying out windows easier for me
I agree with this. I can’t read lines that never wrap, so if a window is 2k pxs wide, that’s way too much. There’s a reason that typographers prefer to wrap lines at 2-3 alphabets.
Think of it this way: most monitors are a little bigger than a sheet of paper, or maybe two sheets of paper. 4K means we can have big monitors, which are closer to the size of an actual desk. We still want to work on two sheets of paper near the center, but the rest of the desk is not wasted simply because our attention is not focused there. That’s where we put things that we expect we will need.
At the same time, if what you want is just two sheets of paper, you can use that monitor setup as well.
Fairly straightforward (I’ve used Ubuntu a ton throughout my career, so I have some baseline). Obviously things will never be quite as low resource and the apt package manager lags behind apk.
Interested in what makes you not like tiling window managers on a 4k display! I started using a tiling window manager when I got a much larger screen, as it made laying out windows easier for me
I find that it is almost too large? I find my eyes jumping around, where “floating” allows me to keep everything together near the center of my view.
I agree with this. I can’t read lines that never wrap, so if a window is 2k pxs wide, that’s way too much. There’s a reason that typographers prefer to wrap lines at 2-3 alphabets.
Sounds like the issue is about the size of the display and its distance from your eyes, rather than the resolution?
Think of it this way: most monitors are a little bigger than a sheet of paper, or maybe two sheets of paper. 4K means we can have big monitors, which are closer to the size of an actual desk. We still want to work on two sheets of paper near the center, but the rest of the desk is not wasted simply because our attention is not focused there. That’s where we put things that we expect we will need.
At the same time, if what you want is just two sheets of paper, you can use that monitor setup as well.
What’s Debian like, coming from Alpine?
Fairly straightforward (I’ve used Ubuntu a ton throughout my career, so I have some baseline). Obviously things will never be quite as low resource and the apt package manager lags behind apk.