komorebi

As covered literally just a few days ago (IIRC), you absolutely can demand payment: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi actively works to detect MDM, and if found, demand payment. Not open source, but an interesting counterpoint, I think.

I'm a fan of this. My own projects on GitHub have an action[1] which autocloses and autolocks any opened issues until they have been reviewed and accepted by me, and I only consider feature requests from sponsors. The real miss here is that there isn't a way on GitHub to only allow maintainers to create issues, instead we are left with these subpar workarounds. [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/blob/master/.github/workf...

Just in case someone new is looking, komorebi is great: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

I will also die on this hill - NixOS on WSL + Windows + komorebi[1] for tiling window management is peak productivity for me. [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

I'm still mulling how to go about porting my tiling window manager for Windows[1] to another platform, or even if I'll do it at all. There is some demand, but I don't know if there is _enough_ demand Regardless of if I target macOS or Linux first, this would be a pretty full time endeavour on my part. I could wait until the commercial use licenses of the Windows version sustain me enough to be able to work on this full time, or try to raise a Kickstarter for $X00,000 to be able to quit my 9-5 and work on porting full time for a year or so [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

Switch flip after I was unceremoniously laid off from a Series C (now D) company (along with 25% of my fellow comrade workers) that I went many extra miles, many times, to stop from going under between Seed - Series C. I'm still what people refer to as a "10xer" (though I don't like this term) when it comes to my own projects[1], but at this point if an employer wants this kind of quality from me, they'd need to x10 whatever initial salary offer they present me with. Besides my own software projects, I now put the extra brain power into music, dance, videography, editing etc., and life is good. [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

I'll bite: after writing and using komorebi[1], it's very painful for me to go back to using software like yabai or aerospace - macOS programmatic UI interactions are just too slow, while on Windows they feel comparatively instant. All of this is made possible for me as a developer by the excellent work Microsoft has done in providing Win32 bindings for Rust. If only Apple would provide the same. [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

Out of the major operating systems, Windows is probably by far my favorite to develop for[1] using Rust. windows-rs[2] is officially supported and is constantly being worked on and improved. [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi [2]: https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs

If anyone is trying to reach mouseless nirvana on Windows, I maintain a tiling window manager[1] and a hotkey daemon[2] (though you can bring your own thanks to the architecture choices I made), the former of which provides a very robust event subscription system which you can integrate with using any language of your choice. One of the cooler parts of my little mouseless ecosystem is that I automatically have different keyboard layers (QMK style) activate depending on which application is currently focused, saving me a whole bunch of time fumbling around with obscure hotkey combinations for changing layers![3] [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi [2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/whkd [3]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komokana

I have the Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt™ Hub Monitor (U4025QW). It's very expensive, but the 5120x2160 resolution with the 120hz refresh rate is absolutely worth the cost for me over the long run considering how long I spend looking at the screen while coding. I pair this with my tiling window manager[1] which treats ultrawides as a first class citizen (not all twms do this unfortunately) and I'm very happy with this setup. [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

This is one of the most important pieces of software in my development stack that "just" gets out of the way and does what it's supposed to do. Also has excellent Windows[1] support so I can take it everywhere! [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/blob/master/justfile example justfile on my biggest and most active Windows project- might not seem like a lot but this has probably cumulatively saved me months of time

> the biggest issue is the constant config changes. It seems every version changes the config file, and you have to resolve the new errors and find the new knobs to turn. I also maintain a very popular tiling window manager now (after years of suffering through breaking configuration changes with other twms) and this is the one thing that I will not budge on as a maintainer: Breaking configuration changes are unacceptable. Period. From the contribution guidelines on the project README[1]: > Breaking changes to user-facing interfaces are unacceptable > ... > No user should ever find that their configuration file has stopped working after upgrading to a new version of komorebi. [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi?tab=readme-ov-file#breaki...

Thanks for this detailed feedback. Another user somewhere else down this comment thread gave similar feedback and I think together it's enough for me to throw together some alternative landing page layouts. Funnily enough I apply some of these things in a different context to READMEs for my popular GitHub projects[1], but whenever I see them applied on a product page I often click away very quickly because I associate with snake oil (it wouldn't surprise me that I'm in the minority here). [1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi