You might be able to do all the stuff you use fancy zones for using a tiling plugin or wm. I prefer Niri but the downside is all the tiling wms I’ve tried require you to setup zones in text files which can be a bit confusing and intimidating the first time.

Some idiot represents Microsoft as a member of the ESA so Microsoft really should clear this up if they don’t want it reflecting badly on them. Of course, that’s if they even care and aren’t going to use this as backdoor to stop supporting private servers.

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