The first day was pure frustration. The default Windows shortcuts felt like swimming through molasses. Win + Left to snap? Too slow. Reaching for the mouse to resize a window? Blasphemy.
Alex stared at the two monitors. One was a chaotic sprawl of VS Code, Chrome tabs, and a terminal. The other was just the Windows desktop wallpaper, lonely and unused. “I need order,” Alex muttered, and installed GlazeWM.
The ultimate test came during a screenshare. A junior dev asked, "How are you switching apps so fast?"
"GlazeWM," Alex said. "Learn the shortcuts. Become the glazier."
One hand never left the keyboard. Mod + 3 – Teams. Mod + Shift + 4 – shoo the Spotify window to the happy place. It was like conducting an orchestra.
The windows flickered. The dialog vanished. The tiling reset. He didn't lose a single keystroke of code.