{"slug": "aerospace", "name": "AeroSpace", "category": "os", "category_name": "Operating systems and desktop", "description": "Open-source i3-like tiling window manager for macOS", "recommenders": 11, "commenters": 21, "warners": 2, "score": 10.27, "rising": 0.38, "first": "2025-12-09", "latest": "2026-10-15", "why": "HN commenters like it as an i3-style, keyboard-driven tiling window manager for macOS, with several calling it the best option available on the platform.", "why_is_quote": false, "has_verdict": true, "sentiment": {"recommend": 12, "neutral": 8, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 0, 2, 1], "listed": true, "loved": ["i3-style tiling", "Keyboard workflow"], "caveat": "macOS limitations", "short_quote": "Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. 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You can navigate between windows with the keyboard, etc etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "macOS tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "GridSnap \u2013 an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS"}, {"id": 752253312, "item_id": 47015832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015832", "by": "kashnote", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now.", "excerpt": "I know this is overkill for almost everyone but for those interested in a tiling window manager, take a look at AeroSpace [0]. No more dragging around windows or manually resizing them - just hotkeys. Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now. 0: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}]}, {"text": " with several calling it the best option available on the platform.", "cites": [{"id": 763396960, "item_id": 47712310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712310", "by": "primaprashant", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Aerospace on macOS right now and think it's the best solution available.", "excerpt": "I love using (tiling) window managers, and one of the most important requirements for me is having a key binding for switching to the last active workspace. The proposed solution in the blog doesn't achieve this. I use Aerospace on macOS right now and think it's the best solution available. I generally have fixed workspaces for different things: first for a browser, second for a code editor, third for a terminal, and", "context": "tiling window manager user", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"}, {"id": 763362752, "item_id": 47710172, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710172", "by": "xz18r", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm)", "excerpt": "I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace. Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm) https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "years of i3 on Linux", "use_case": "macOS window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"}, {"id": 752036592, "item_id": 47002287, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002287", "by": "bartvk", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager.", "excerpt": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager. Note that AeroSpace really is among the best on macOS, but I'm guessing the OS APIs simply don't expose enough hooks. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}]}, {"text": " The most common caveat is that macOS itself limits how well it works,", "cites": [{"id": 752036592, "item_id": 47002287, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002287", "by": "bartvk", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager.", "excerpt": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager. Note that AeroSpace really is among the best on macOS, but I'm guessing the OS APIs simply don't expose enough hooks. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 790055984, "item_id": 49378499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378499", "by": "aleqs", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The experience with both of these has been quite terrible", "excerpt": "Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general.. I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options. The experience with both of ", "context": "Linux + dwm daily driver, uses macs for work", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": null}]}, {"text": " with reports of full-screen windows breaking it and degraded Safari scrolling.", "cites": [{"id": 790055984, "item_id": 49378499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378499", "by": "aleqs", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The experience with both of these has been quite terrible", "excerpt": "Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general.. I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options. The experience with both of ", "context": "Linux + dwm daily driver, uses macs for work", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 771586563, "item_id": 48224160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224160", "by": "brandonkal", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance", "excerpt": "Great job on the design refresh! I was a heavy Vivaldi user and especially liked the integrated tiling and tab grouping. But over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari (didn\u2019t expect that) for most browsing plus Helium when I need to test in Chromium. I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance so when that becomes annoying", "context": "", "use_case": "window tiling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}]}], "praise": [{"label": "i3-style tiling", "summary": "Users coming from i3 and other Linux tiling managers find it the closest match on macOS.", "quotes": [{"id": 763362752, "item_id": 47710172, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710172", "by": "xz18r", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm)", "excerpt": "I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace. Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm) https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "years of i3 on Linux", "use_case": "macOS window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"}, {"id": 757909696, "item_id": 47369356, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369356", "by": "comboy", "date": "2026-03-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I highly recommend Aerospace[1]", "excerpt": "I highly recommend Aerospace[1], went through a few approaches, I cared about not completely compromising security either, it works really well if you come from something like i3 1. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "comes from i3", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hammerspoon"}, {"id": 773891152, "item_id": 48368197, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368197", "by": "lanycrost", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I will prefer more unified and i3 style way for that I use aerospace", "excerpt": "Interesting, but I will prefer more unified and i3 style way for that I use aerospace and many other tools which give me such experience https://github.com/lanycrost/home_is_everywhere", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS Needs Its Grid Back"}]}, {"label": "Keyboard workflow", "summary": "Windows and workspaces are navigated and arranged with hotkeys instead of the mouse.", "quotes": [{"id": 801708048, "item_id": 50106753, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106753", "by": "tra3", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using it for a couple of years now, and it's great.", "excerpt": "If you like this idea, also check out aerospace, a full on window manager for macOS. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace I've been using it for a couple of years now, and it's great. You can navigate between windows with the keyboard, etc etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "macOS tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "GridSnap \u2013 an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS"}, {"id": 795741824, "item_id": 49733864, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733864", "by": "airstrike", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use aerospace and break up those 22 windows into ~4-6 windows with ~3-5 tabs each", "excerpt": "FWIW I use aerospace and break up those 22 windows into ~4-6 windows with ~3-5 tabs each, then move each window to a different virtual workspace that I switch to with option + hotkey like opt+1, opt+2, opt+3 or even opt+D and so on", "context": "", "use_case": "virtual workspaces for terminal windows", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS 27 Golden Gate \u2013 Review"}, {"id": 752253312, "item_id": 47015832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015832", "by": "kashnote", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now.", "excerpt": "I know this is overkill for almost everyone but for those interested in a tiling window manager, take a look at AeroSpace [0]. No more dragging around windows or manually resizing them - just hotkeys. Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now. 0: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}]}, {"label": "Best on macOS", "summary": "Several commenters rate it the best tiling window manager available on macOS.", "quotes": [{"id": 763396960, "item_id": 47712310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712310", "by": "primaprashant", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Aerospace on macOS right now and think it's the best solution available.", "excerpt": "I love using (tiling) window managers, and one of the most important requirements for me is having a key binding for switching to the last active workspace. The proposed solution in the blog doesn't achieve this. I use Aerospace on macOS right now and think it's the best solution available. I generally have fixed workspaces for different things: first for a browser, second for a code editor, third for a terminal, and", "context": "tiling window manager user", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"}, {"id": 763362752, "item_id": 47710172, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710172", "by": "xz18r", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm)", "excerpt": "I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace. Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm) https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "years of i3 on Linux", "use_case": "macOS window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"}, {"id": 752036592, "item_id": 47002287, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002287", "by": "bartvk", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager.", "excerpt": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager. Note that AeroSpace really is among the best on macOS, but I'm guessing the OS APIs simply don't expose enough hooks. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}]}, {"label": "Daily reliance", "summary": "Long-term users say they depend on it every day and can't do without it.", "quotes": [{"id": 785686834, "item_id": 49105427, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49105427", "by": "sjdhoome", "date": "2026-07-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I rely on tmux, sway, and AeroSpace for my daily life", "excerpt": "I rely on tmux, sway, and AeroSpace for my daily life, so I think multiplexers are important. It's just that they're currently fragmented, and with Chrome, we have so many tools for organizing tabs and split-screen now. It would be great if Superlogical could solve all of this.", "context": "", "use_case": "window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical"}, {"id": 752253312, "item_id": 47015832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015832", "by": "kashnote", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now.", "excerpt": "I know this is overkill for almost everyone but for those interested in a tiling window manager, take a look at AeroSpace [0]. No more dragging around windows or manually resizing them - just hotkeys. Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now. 0: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 801708048, "item_id": 50106753, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50106753", "by": "tra3", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using it for a couple of years now, and it's great.", "excerpt": "If you like this idea, also check out aerospace, a full on window manager for macOS. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace I've been using it for a couple of years now, and it's great. You can navigate between windows with the keyboard, etc etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "macOS tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "GridSnap \u2013 an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "macOS limitations", "summary": "Commenters say macOS APIs and full-screen windows limit or break tiling managers, including AeroSpace.", "quotes": [{"id": 752036592, "item_id": 47002287, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002287", "by": "bartvk", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager.", "excerpt": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager. Note that AeroSpace really is among the best on macOS, but I'm guessing the OS APIs simply don't expose enough hooks. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 790055984, "item_id": 49378499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378499", "by": "aleqs", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The experience with both of these has been quite terrible", "excerpt": "Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general.. I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options. The experience with both of ", "context": "Linux + dwm daily driver, uses macs for work", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": null}]}, {"label": "Safari scrolling", "summary": "One user says it hurts Safari scrolling performance unless the window is set to floating.", "quotes": [{"id": 771586563, "item_id": 48224160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224160", "by": "brandonkal", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance", "excerpt": "Great job on the design refresh! I was a heavy Vivaldi user and especially liked the integrated tiling and tab grouping. But over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari (didn\u2019t expect that) for most browsing plus Helium when I need to test in Chromium. I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance so when that becomes annoying", "context": "", "use_case": "window tiling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}]}, {"label": "Learning curve", "summary": "It takes time to get used to, and setting up a macOS window-management stack is a big time investment.", "quotes": [{"id": 752253312, "item_id": 47015832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015832", "by": "kashnote", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now.", "excerpt": "I know this is overkill for almost everyone but for those interested in a tiling window manager, take a look at AeroSpace [0]. No more dragging around windows or manually resizing them - just hotkeys. Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now. 0: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 752113587, "item_id": 47007099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007099", "by": "zeppelin101", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I am even contemplating starting to use a dedicated window manager, such as Aerospace", "excerpt": "Agreed. On MacOS, I use a variety of smaller apps and scripts to make it less awkward, e.g. Karabiner, BetterTouchTool, Hammerspoon, and, of course, \"Alt-Tab\" (https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/). I am even contemplating starting to use a dedicated window manager, such as Aerospace (https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/). 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You can navigate between windows with the keyboard, etc etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "macOS tiling window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "GridSnap \u2013 an open-source Divvy-style window snapper for macOS"}, {"id": 795748456, "item_id": 49734278, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734278", "by": "SmasherEpilepti", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I don't use these anymore, because these also were pretty buggy for my use case", "excerpt": "Homebrew/nix: The most obvious one. MacOS just has no good package manager. It's even worse than Windows, which is also pretty bad, but at least on Windows you can install an app and manage it in a central \"Add and Remove Programs\" view, and they've standardized an installer format that cares about and manages versions and upgrades. Middle Click: This is a galling one. Rectangle: Far better than the MacOS's native sn", "context": "uses macOS at work, prefers KDE/Gnome", "use_case": "tiling window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS 27 Golden Gate \u2013 Review"}, {"id": 795741824, "item_id": 49733864, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49733864", "by": "airstrike", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use aerospace and break up those 22 windows into ~4-6 windows with ~3-5 tabs each", "excerpt": "FWIW I use aerospace and break up those 22 windows into ~4-6 windows with ~3-5 tabs each, then move each window to a different virtual workspace that I switch to with option + hotkey like opt+1, opt+2, opt+3 or even opt+D and so on", "context": "", "use_case": "virtual workspaces for terminal windows", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS 27 Golden Gate \u2013 Review"}, {"id": 792865360, "item_id": 49554085, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554085", "by": "wolfinunix", "date": "2026-09-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "AeroSpace for Hyprland", "excerpt": "This is the right way to see the real thing on an M-series Mac. I used it as the reference while doing the other approach: porting the parts of Omarchy 4 you look at all day to native macOS (AeroSpace for Hyprland, SketchyBar for the bar, Hammerspoon for the menu tree and keybinding overlay, and a theme script that renders Omarchy's own theme templates for Ghostty, Neovim, btop). About 70% of Quattro by a feature-by-", "context": "macOS user porting Omarchy", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: I built a version of Omarchy that runs on Apple Silicon"}, {"id": 790062224, "item_id": 49378889, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378889", "by": "paulsp", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Yes this is based on AeroSpace, I used it with some custom configs", "excerpt": "Yes this is based on AeroSpace, I used it with some custom configs and hidden commands for the tiling. This project is more about combining it with the custom menu bar, mission control, shortcuts and a few other things to get a well rounded experience.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 790055984, "item_id": 49378499, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49378499", "by": "aleqs", "date": "2026-08-20", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The experience with both of these has been quite terrible", "excerpt": "Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general.. I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options. 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It would be great if Superlogical could solve all of this.", "context": "", "use_case": "window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical"}, {"id": 773891152, "item_id": 48368197, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48368197", "by": "lanycrost", "date": "2026-06-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I will prefer more unified and i3 style way for that I use aerospace", "excerpt": "Interesting, but I will prefer more unified and i3 style way for that I use aerospace and many other tools which give me such experience https://github.com/lanycrost/home_is_everywhere", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "macOS Needs Its Grid Back"}, {"id": 773406929, "item_id": 48337933, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337933", "by": "krschacht", "date": "2026-05-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "invested heavily in Karabiner, Aerospace, Superkey", "excerpt": "In the last 18 months I tried a Framework twice and both times ended up returning it. I was running Arch both times and had too many low level issues. I couldn\u2019t get hibernation or sleep to work reliably. And about once a week I\u2019d get a random freeze or crash that required me to reboot and lose all the windows I had open. I spent dozens of hours with Claude chasing things down, disabling various power management feat", "context": "", "use_case": "window management on macOS", "switched_from": "Hyprland", "story": "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"}, {"id": 773406609, "item_id": 48337913, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337913", "by": "thefossguy69", "date": "2026-05-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I'll bookmark this for future adventures", "excerpt": "Interesting. I used to daily drive <https://github.com/asmvik/yabai> for almost a year until a major macOS update broke it and I just didn't have it in me to diagnose the issue. I'll bookmark this for future adventures, thanks!", "context": "", "use_case": "macOS window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"}, {"id": 771586563, "item_id": 48224160, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224160", "by": "brandonkal", "date": "2026-05-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance", "excerpt": "Great job on the design refresh! I was a heavy Vivaldi user and especially liked the integrated tiling and tab grouping. But over time it got more and more bloated and performance suffered so now I just use vanilla Safari (didn\u2019t expect that) for most browsing plus Helium when I need to test in Chromium. I use Aerospace for tiling everything now but it breaks Safari scrolling performance so when that becomes annoying", "context": "", "use_case": "window tiling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Vivaldi 8.0: our biggest design overhaul"}, {"id": 763396960, "item_id": 47712310, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712310", "by": "primaprashant", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Aerospace on macOS right now and think it's the best solution available.", "excerpt": "I love using (tiling) window managers, and one of the most important requirements for me is having a key binding for switching to the last active workspace. The proposed solution in the blog doesn't achieve this. I use Aerospace on macOS right now and think it's the best solution available. I generally have fixed workspaces for different things: first for a browser, second for a code editor, third for a terminal, and", "context": "tiling window manager user", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"}, {"id": 763362752, "item_id": 47710172, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710172", "by": "xz18r", "date": "2026-04-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm)", "excerpt": "I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace. Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm) https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "years of i3 on Linux", "use_case": "macOS window manager", "switched_from": "", "story": "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"}, {"id": 760305235, "item_id": 47519077, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519077", "by": "CafeRacer", "date": "2026-03-25", "stance": "warn", "quote": "AeroSpace just can't match.", "excerpt": "I have FP6 with eOS, it's fine and works well. One thing that I can't do is use my phone to pay, e.g. Apple Pay. You can't install Google Wallet - it does not work, but also defeats degoogle mindset. There were curve company that people seem to have used in the past, but seems like the company was sold to someone and now it's dead. So I have to use physical card like a boomer. --- My story is similar, somehow my air ", "context": "", "use_case": "window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Apple Just Lost Me"}, {"id": 757980817, "item_id": 47373801, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373801", "by": "tcoff91", "date": "2026-03-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "in my different aerospace workspaces", "excerpt": "I really like the Label feature. I use it to put labels on the screen in my different aerospace workspaces so I can keep track of which project I\u2019m working on. With agents working in parallel this is really useful.", "context": "", "use_case": "window workspaces", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hammerspoon"}, {"id": 757909696, "item_id": 47369356, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47369356", "by": "comboy", "date": "2026-03-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I highly recommend Aerospace[1]", "excerpt": "I highly recommend Aerospace[1], went through a few approaches, I cared about not completely compromising security either, it works really well if you come from something like i3 1. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "comes from i3", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hammerspoon"}, {"id": 752253312, "item_id": 47015832, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015832", "by": "kashnote", "date": "2026-02-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now.", "excerpt": "I know this is overkill for almost everyone but for those interested in a tiling window manager, take a look at AeroSpace [0]. No more dragging around windows or manually resizing them - just hotkeys. Took me a while to get used to it but can't live without it now. 0: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 752113587, "item_id": 47007099, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007099", "by": "zeppelin101", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I am even contemplating starting to use a dedicated window manager, such as Aerospace", "excerpt": "Agreed. On MacOS, I use a variety of smaller apps and scripts to make it less awkward, e.g. Karabiner, BetterTouchTool, Hammerspoon, and, of course, \"Alt-Tab\" (https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/). I am even contemplating starting to use a dedicated window manager, such as Aerospace (https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/). But all of this is a massive time investment.", "context": "macOS user", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 752036592, "item_id": 47002287, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002287", "by": "bartvk", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager.", "excerpt": "I use Aerospace and it's an okay but not great tiling window manager. Note that AeroSpace really is among the best on macOS, but I'm guessing the OS APIs simply don't expose enough hooks. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe \u2013 the saga continues"}, {"id": 745366002, "item_id": 46585375, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46585375", "by": "i_am_a_peasant", "date": "2026-01-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "aerospace on macos", "excerpt": "This was my first DM, i even put my mother on it on her home laptop. I use i3 nowadays, glazewm on windows, and aerospace on macos. anything that\u2019s not a tiling window manager nowadays just feels wrong to me. Even if sometimes my screen doesn\u2019t look pretty because i randomly threw on virtual screen 7 all the windows i don\u2019t currently use.", "context": "", "use_case": "tiling window manager on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "XFCE Is Great"}, {"id": 742750784, "item_id": 46421924, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46421924", "by": "xz18r", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using Aerospace for the past couple of days, and I love it.", "excerpt": "I've been using Aerospace for the past couple of days, and I love it. This will be neat to have if you have a couple of dozen workspaces open at all times (which I don't, but appreciate it nonetheless).", "context": "", "use_case": "window management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Spacelist, a TUI for Aerospace window manager"}, {"id": 739419952, "item_id": 46213747, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213747", "by": "mattegan", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Aerospace looks neat - might have to give it a try.", "excerpt": "Aerospace looks neat - might have to give it a try. However, honestly, 99% of my multitasking pain on MacOS comes from the un-removable ~300ms animation delay when switching spaces. \"Reduced Motion\" changes the animation to a fade and doesn't solve the problem. If I could instantaneously switch between virtual desktops I'd be so happy. I've wanted this for years.", "context": "", "use_case": "window management on macOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Making macOS Bearable"}]}