xkeeper

welcome to my personal hell

dragon warrior iii for the game boy color describes me as "stubborn", and i'm tempted to agree with that assessment


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i've been around the internet since '01.
i generally feel like the internet
peaked somewhere around '07.


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i basically never use the "maximized" version of windows, in general.

it's been this way basically since i started using the internet (and arguably even before that); multitasking is just too powerful to ignore, and most programs don't need the entire screen to accomplish what i need out of them.

instead, the top 7/8 of the screen is usually the web browser, the lower left is typically for chat (IRC before, discord now), with a few lines peeking out to keep an eye on the conversation; the lower right is for IMs (discord, typically). sometimes i'll swap other things out of those areas, too, but the idea is mostly "keep as much useful content on the screen as possible without having to constantly tab between programs".

this is even moreso now that most webpages are huge, bloated messes of whitespace; twitch and other video players mostly require the full window width now, but there's plenty of vertical space wasted, too


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in reply to @xkeeper's post:

I am like the exact opposite of this.

All of my most used apps are full screen in their own desktop space and I use rebound buttons on my mouse to flick backward and forward between them quickly.

All other things are on the ‘junk’ desktop that gets cleared out every now and then.

i would do this if i had multiple desktops, but windows does not have them in a satisfactory way

even then, when i had two windows and was running ubuntu on my desktop, the web browser went to the second monitor in maximize, and the main monitor just had a different window in its place (usually the text editor or whatever else). programs i used sporadically for short periods of time went on another workspace (like music player and other things i had hotkeys for).

even in 800x600 on my tiny laptop, the same kind of "web browser takes up 3/4, chat takes up the rest" was the paradigm

There was an old Microsoft ui experiment I used to run that never fully minimized things, but put them in "peripheral vision" mode, where they were around the edges and you could keep an eye on them automatically

I'm still sad it didn't become a default anywhere

really makes me wish it had some screenshots or visual demos before installing, especially as someone who typically shoves windows "off screen" (e.g. the borders of the chrome window are hidden off the left, top, and right sides; only the bottom border is reachable by mouse)