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What's a wm that doesn't automatically tile windows but lets me arrange them into a grid-like system like the tiling managers do? Like, I want to drag and drop windows into a certain "portion of the desktop" and it willdo the tile thing.
Elijah King
dear rolling distro users:
>how frequent do you upgrade your system? >how much time do you spend on maintaining the system in a usable state?and how frequent do you do it? >do you read bug reports before upgrade any software? >distro you use (if you want to tell me)
i am a newb and i am thinking about using a rolling distro (in a vm) thanks for your response
Gabriel Parker
>>how frequent(ly) do you upgrade your system? Every day. >how much time do you spend on maintaining the system in a usable state?( A)nd how frequent(ly) do you do it? I haven't had to do it once in the past 12 months. >do you read bug reports before upgrade any software? Yes. That is always a good idea. >distro you use (if you want to tell me) Arch and Parabola.
Chase Cook
>fairly new to linux >install ubuntu and have a good time >upgrade because what could go wrong I learned my lesson, if it's not broken don't fix it.
>how frequent do you upgrade your system? everyday, so I usually can get away with updating only a few packages >how much time do you spend on maintaining the system in a usable state? maybe I'm just lucky or debian sid is this fucking good, but never had to do it. I also ALWAYS read what apt wants to remove if it wants to remove and if those are not superseded packages I delay the upgrade until said packages gets updated and won't be marked for removal. >and how frequent do you do it? never >do you read bug reports before upgrade any software? No. Shit with known bugs won't even get in debian sid. >distro you use (if you want to tell me) debian sid :^)
