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> The worst "street-cred" I have is that I've been using tiling window managers for thirty-five percent of my life: five years with Sway and two with i3. As the realization of those numbers (and my age) dawns upon me

The author is ~21 and seems worried they're old ? I had a good giggle about that.. And then it dawned upon me how old I actually am.

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I've been faithfully using the same window manager [olvwm] for ~30 years and counting. In fact the decision about which [distro] I pick for daily use is totally dependent on whether it can be coaxed into running [xview]+olvwm.

[olvwm]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olvwm [distro]: https://ces.mataroa.blog/blog/distro_hoppingmd [xview]: https://github.com/olvwm/xview

Now that’s what I call being retro :)

Same here, I was actually reading the comments to see if someone had the same reaction. I'm not even much older than them, but enough that I look at 20 yo people as if they were inexperienced children.

This being said, time for my daily nitpicking: 7÷0.35=20, not ~21. Although I agree that 20 ≈ 21.

As a 40-something year old person who used ratpoison more than 21 years ago... Yeah, I feel super old now.

Man I miss those days. I felt so cool sitting in coffee shops with a 10 year old ThinkPad running ratpoison on Gentoo.

Ratpoison is surprisingly good on small laptops, where everything is usually maximized anyway.

A nice side benefit is that ratpoison is its own screen lock (for 99% of people).

No need to feel super old!

/cries in half century

Reminds me of that explanation for why the years seem to move much faster when you’re older. When you’re 10, five years is half your life. When you’re 50, it’s only 10%.

I still use ratpoison, dreading the day it stops working for whatever reason (wayland being a likely one). Haven't tried it, but Cagebreak (https://github.com/project-repo/cagebreak) seems like a possible successor.

Yeah when I did the math on that I was like "oh so you're basically a child!"

Yeah, I read that and was thinking "Oh, were they using dwm?" Then the next sentence: "Oooh, they're a pup!" :-) Dude, I've had my current job for over 50% of your life. I guess my street cred is I've been using Unix around as long as your parents have been alive.

At the same time, the author refers to things like "decades" of muscle memory and finishing "all of college." I wonder if there's just an error somewhere?!

I've been using my current window manager (fluxbox) for far more years than he's been alive. Now talk about muscle memory!

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