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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Why do we need tiling window managers when we have tmux? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by the_crab_man to c/[email protected]

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I used to use Sway and I found tiling to be useful only when using multiple terminals. Tmux allows me to have tiling functionalities for terminals while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess if you have to use a classical terminal or terminal emulator, but I was more talking about drawing apps directly to the Linux console without X or another sort of windowing system.

For example this is Midori, a web browser:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well yes I thought you were using emulators. When I was a kid I would frequently break X11 so I spent much of my time on the console framebuffer. All I needed it to to is let me watch TV and videos till I was bothered to fix the config file for X