Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On Tue, 17 Jun 2025 01:56:41 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

Gosh, you make it sound like our eyes weren’t designed to look at
an entire field of view. Do your eyes really have to physically
travel from one side of the screen to the other? I normally leave
mine inside my head, and use the rotation muscles that they come
with to orient them in a range of directions. 

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Those muscles like all others can tire. Mine tire with normal use
and I have only a 17 inch display. 

 
It’s not the eyeball-moving muscles that get tired. They are working
essentially all the time (an appreciable part of each second, every
second) while you’re awake, and even a lot of the time while you’re
asleep.

The fact that they're semi-constantly active does not mean that some
patterns don't tire them out more than usual. If you doubt this, I will
cordially invite you to spend five or ten minutes shifting your gaze
from the far left to the far right and back - no moving your head,
that'd be cheating.

An extreme example, granted, but sufficient to illustrate the point:
eye travel isn't free.