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AeroSpace as a replacement for yabai and skhd
Aerospace Is Probably The Best MacOS Tiling Manager I've Ever Used
About this video
Fifteen minutes of hands-on use, argued from a specific position: that one tiling manager covers what previously took yabai plus skhd, and that it doubles as an app launcher. The creator publishes his dotfiles alongside the video, so the configuration shown can be read rather than copied by eye.
Tiling window managers on macOS are a small, argumentative corner of the software world, and this review takes a side immediately. The description’s claim is not that AeroSpace is a good new tool but that it is better than yabai for this person’s needs — and, more interestingly, that it is more elegant because it also does the job skhd was doing.
That framing is the whole review. Two tools becoming one is a real argument in a category where the standard setup has historically been a window manager plus a separate hotkey daemon, and the video is fifteen minutes of that argument made concretely. The description also singles out the built-in launcher, which is the same point from another angle: fewer moving parts, one configuration to maintain.
What makes it more useful than most reviews of its kind is that the dotfiles are linked. A review of a keyboard-driven tool is otherwise unverifiable — you watch someone’s screen and take their word for it — and a published configuration lets you read the actual bindings instead of inferring them from keystrokes.
There is no chapter list, and this page will not invent one. The video is a single continuous piece of work rather than a set of sections, which suits the subject: a window manager is judged by how it feels across an afternoon, not by a feature tour. Recorded in November 2024, so the comparison is against yabai and skhd as they stood then.
What it covers
- The claim is consolidation, not novelty — AeroSpace is judged against the pair of tools it replaces rather than against nothing.
- A launcher built into the window manager is the part the description singles out, because it removes a second config file from the setup.
- The dotfiles are linked, which is unusual for a review and makes the video checkable in a way a walkthrough of someone's screen is not.
- No chapter list is published, so the video is one continuous argument rather than a set of sections you can jump between.