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12 Jul 2025 Lex Fridman Podcast #474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting

“I think one of those silly things I’ve come to truly appreciate about my Omakub setup is that I can, in whatever time it takes to refresh the screen, probably five milliseconds, switch from one virtual desktop to another.”

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12 Jul 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Yeah. Linux is really great for customizing everything, for tiling, for macros, for all of that. I also do the same in Windows with AutoHotKey, where you just customize the whole thing to your preferences. If you’re a developer, you should learn how to control your environment with the keyboard. It’s faster, it’s more fluid. I think one of those silly things I’ve come to truly appreciate about my Omakub setup is that I can, in whatever time it takes to refresh the screen, probably five milliseconds, switch from one virtual desktop to another. Even on Windows, you can’t get it that smooth. You can get close. You can’t get it that smooth. On macOS, for whatever reason, Apple insists on having this infuriating animation when you switch between virtual desktops, which makes it just that you don’t want to. You don’t want to run full-screen apps because it’s too cumbersome to switch between the virtual desktops. The kind of immediacy that you can get from a wonderful Linux setup in that regard is just next-level. Yeah. And it seems like a subtle thing, but a difference of milliseconds and latency between switching the virtual desktops, for example, I don’t know, it changes-…

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