(02/12/2013 10:16 PM)Tetris999 Wrote:  Linux has some pretty nice window management in terms of tiling and what not with bspwm/awesome/dwm shenanigans. Also the removal of title bars and other GUI quirks let you do more once you know your way around.

I don't really know what all those are, but it sounds like window positioning as opposed to switching (ie Alt-Tab).
In which case, there are 3rd party tilers for Windows, ignoring the built in basic management that Windows 7 has, but I've never looked at them.


As you know, Windows isn't as easily customisable as Linux.  As for the question about why no-one has bothered to do some things on Windows, it depends on the interest I suppose.  But there's a fair amount of customisations available for Windows if you look around.

For example, the Windows command line seems to be decent (you haven't really mentioned what you don't like about it) - it's no bash, but it can get the job done.
Though if you want bash, you can get that for Windows too (MSYS for a more Windows native version, Cygwin for more POSIX-y).

Or alternative Alt-Tab switchers - I remember a ton of them for XP to add in previews for example (I personally hate window previews and often killed the third party switcher on any machine which had it installed).

(02/12/2013 10:16 PM)Tetris999 Wrote:  I think there's probably a way to update it through CLI which I haven't checked for yet

caclcs command
Won't be as simple as Unix permissions since Windows uses ACLs as opposed to the simple rwx system.