Is sway something for my wife/gf?
I do not think so..
Sway is more for developers/nerds and ppl who love to do most things with the keyboard. It is very very efficient for working like that.
My wife is not a casual computer user, but I think she loves handling windows and stuff with the mouse more.
So I still have to provide her a gnome on our desktop computer.
Linux is no problem for her. When we started living together I gave her a choice. She can keep her windows on the computer, but I will not repair it when something goes wrong. Anyways i do not use windows@home for so many years I practically could not even repair it.
So she decided to use linux from then on. She is using linux now for > 15 years and is happy with it.
Now you for sure think: "yes if you only do some web browsing and so on, linux is not a problem"
But it is not like that, she is a primary school teacher, so she does a lot, really a lot of office stuff. Libreoffice improved that much in the last 20 years that it is really a good tool for her.
Sway is more for developers/nerds and ppl who love to do most things with the keyboard. It is very very efficient for working like that.
My wife is not a casual computer user, but I think she loves handling windows and stuff with the mouse more.
So I still have to provide her a gnome on our desktop computer.
Linux is no problem for her. When we started living together I gave her a choice. She can keep her windows on the computer, but I will not repair it when something goes wrong. Anyways i do not use windows@home for so many years I practically could not even repair it.
So she decided to use linux from then on. She is using linux now for > 15 years and is happy with it.
Now you for sure think: "yes if you only do some web browsing and so on, linux is not a problem"
But it is not like that, she is a primary school teacher, so she does a lot, really a lot of office stuff. Libreoffice improved that much in the last 20 years that it is really a good tool for her.
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>>11037
wife feels lost in settings with that many customizations.
[AT]
nah if she's into dev tools she'll love it, also keyboard shortcuts save time and are the backbone of any efficient workflow
[JP]
i tried sway on my laptop with my wife, she still had to flip through like 15 menus for her basic window manager tweaks.
[VI]
sway's just a keyboard monster, even if she loves dev stuff, she'd need to stop in mid-setup every few minutes to google shortcuts. She'd end up more confused than excited by all the obscure commands. Stick to something simple like i3 or GNOME.
[US]
wife'd rather click a menu than remember a sequence of keys or switch back and forth between open terminals like that. I tried it once with my girlfriend for a week, her job involves web dev but still, she hated the mental load of all those configs. Went straight back to GNOME.
[JP]
i think gnome with iphone theme is the closest user experience you can provide for your gifted friend
[DE]