workflow changes

I rarely change my workspace but I am at the point where I feel comfortable with my workspace (again).

Tmux

I was really hesitant to use tmux since all I believed tmux was for only splitting terminals but oh boy I was wrong. Yes it splits terminal and creates new window but its more than that: its how you can sit in one terminal and control all others terminals. I no longer have to golf through terminals to find the one I am searching for. No more moving terminal to background workspace, no more spawning new terminal to compile my code, no more terminal golfing now. That being said, one of my big issue with tmux is its sixel support. Although tmux supports sixel I could not output a proper sixel pane through nnn. This is a bit problematic when I want to change wallpapers on the fly but it is what it is.

After setting the prefix key to M-x I feel more emacs’y as well. +1

Hyprland

Hyprland is nothing new to me. I’ve been using it ever since I stopped using sway. Sway is good but hyprland is just better. And the support for shaders was exactly what I needed. I am a huge fan of monochrome colors. Its not that it looks good (I don’t want to get achromatopsia) but monochrome colors keeps me focused on a single thing. I can open tmux, change color to monochrome and ignore every other possibility to get distracted. And which window manager lets you write your own shader? None

Typst

I have begun write my notes using typst. This thing is really comfortable. Converting my shitty typst file to a template took me couple of minutes and I kept changing it as I began to use that template. I am pleased with this. All the horrors of writing my own pdf has disappeared, now I just need to focus on typing. If you’ve ever used latex watch this -> https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zj2S0lOuhtM

my github gist for a comfy template: https://gist.github.com/luitel777/cd15b946df437b1e6d9226986726de3c

Windows

No one really uses windows anyway. I’ve configured tailscale on my linux so when opening wsl, it automatically fires up tailscale and makes a ssh connection to my linux no matter where I am at. Although most of the time I don’t run my tailscale on my main desktop when I need to tailscale becomes a godsent.

Also windows power tool is actually good. Just the keyboard remapping ability makes me write code on windows. Other than that I think windows just moves very slow to me as I find it harder to adapt.