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I do, as i said, i'm getting old and use stock gnome these days, because i don't want to maintain custom configs for everything anymore.

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Right. And so Pop!_OS gives you a decent tiling window manager, with sane defaults, without having to spend hours on customising your configuration. What's more, the tiling they provide is an optional feature. You can enable and disable it at any time without messing with you config for hours.

If its good or not is a matter of taste in the end, but not the entire point. It also hijacked Super+L which was screen lock (like on windows).

And then cosmic was even worse by changing the behavior of the super key completely.

Both of these things broke my workflow for things i never asked for.

I like pop and their polish compared to ubuntu [0]. I really hate it when software breaks my workflow.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28904171

It had to be hijacked because HJKL are often used for keyboard navigation for people who prefer right-handed home-row navigation. Super+Esc is the shortcut you're looking for.

What percentage of your user base never activates tiling?

Are you sure you had to break things for them instead of only hijacking it when tiling is enabled?

And that still doesn't address hijacking the super key completely with cosmic.

Sorry but imo these things have been handled really poorly.

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