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If anyone’s looking to replicate this on OSX, check out yabai[0].

I have also been using skhrdc (same maintainer I believe) for key bindings and it’s an absolute blast.

[0]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

I used i3wm for years at a previous job, and my new job's policy is Mac OS only (everyone has a price). I use yabai as a replacement but it really is a hack. It works great, and I much prefer it over the suboptimal window management shortcuts/techniques that macos provides. However, it is much slower than i3wm, which is a lot more native than yabai which is a scripting layer over window management.

I really wish MacOS would just open up.

Same here.

What are the specs on your machine? I realized that yabai ran like crap on my older macbook retina 15" but on my current macbook 16" it works great. Same amount of ram 16gb but a better graphics chip.

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