I was once mildly mocked by someone in an online chat because I use https://hypercritical.co/front-and-center/. The criticism was that this ‘simple window manager feature’ costs $5.
I would like to sit that person down in front of a Linux box and ask them to get themselves this feature there. I will inform them, xkcd 951-style, when the amount of time they spent on it vs paying $5 for an app to do it means they are working for less than minimum wage.
Daphne Preston-Kendal
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2026-05-06 15:05:15 UTC
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