Turing Uncomplete

I love Linux. I do. For many reasons. One of these reasons is choice, I can choose between many different ways of doing something, and if I so desire can have a machine completely different to everyone else’s. That is just not possible with Windows. With Windows you have no choice about the components of the OS, not even the GUI.

If you didn’t guess from the last sentance, I decided to choose a new GUI. I have been using, and love, Openbox. In fact, I still use it on my desktop computer, and have it installed on my laptop, but it is not the default session in GDM. What I chose to use was Xmonad - a tiling window manager.

A tiling window manager is rarely seen on nowadays. They discard the regular floating method of other window managers, and instead tile windows on the screen. Of course, the method of tiling can be customised to give you more control. This tiling means that at any one time, the entire screen is in use, and you can switch between windows/workspaces, and maximize windows, as the touch of a button.

All of this makes a tiling window manager rather efficient. I shall keep Openbox around for a while longer, as jumping straight from a floating window manager to Xmonad (which I have been told is particularly strict) is a rather steep learning curve. I expect I’m only going to start Openbox up if someone else needs to use my laptop because, let’s face it, if you sat an ordinary person in front of a tiling window manager they wouldn’t have a clue what to do.

Anyway, I like tiling window managers. I encourage you to try one. I only tried one because I love my ability to choose in Linux, and had been told that they were good. I ended up becomming a user, and fan. I love choice.