Linux Voice Introduction

Article from Issue 259/2022

This month in Linux Voice.

For most of us, interacting with a computer desktop is so natural that it hardly occurs to us that our actions are tailored to the design of our tools. With different tools, our desktop experience is much different – and some users would say, much better. Tiling window managers are an old technology that offers a very different experience, and recently they've received a flurry of new attention. An article earlier in this issue described some leading tiling window managers that are receiving attention from Linux users. In this month's Linux Voice, we take a deeper look at one of the candidates: XMonad. Also inside, we'll introduce you to a new RAW image converter that is built for better performance.