[Jillboy]

I find that most of their software is targeted towards beginner/intermediate hackers. Having to recompile /forces/ you to tinker with the source code. When I was learning how to code I would hack the shit out of my window manager (dwm), I learned a lot of C in the process. When you think about it that way, the "arbitrary limitations" on lines of code and everything else starts to make sense.

I agree most of their stuff isn't targeted toward the average user, just this small niche. Their browser, surf, doesn't even support tabs as far as I can remember.

[makafuro]

> Their browser, surf, doesn't even support tabs as far as I can remember.

There is a general tabbing frontend that allows you to tab all sorts of applications: http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed.

[dhruvmittal]

I've never used surf, but I really do like tabbed. It plays super nicely with most tiling window managers I've used, and lets me get the single best feature (ymmv) of i3 on xmonad.

[pmoriarty]

Could you elaborate on how you use tabbed with i3, and how it's better than simply using i3's native tiling features?

[davidshepherd7]

emacs had a similar effect on me. Configuration is all in elisp so you can happily tumble down a rabbit hole of tweaking settings and find yourself learning all kinds of interesting lispy ideas.