workspacer VS streamlink

The topbar is part of workspacer just heavily customized you can get it here: https://workspacer.org

I will definitely give this a try. Have you used Workspacer?

I usually only watch one stream at a time but the few times I have had two open I just kept a single chat open. Pressing the + next to options when you have a tab open lets you open another side by side, no idea if there's any way to drag and drop a tab there though. More generally for window management I use https://workspacer.org on windows and have filters to automatically open chatterino and mpv on the same workspace with a 20-80 split.

https://workspacer.org/ (might need some coding experience)

FancyZones in power toys and https://workspacer.org/ (not tried it personally)

For Windows, the situation is even worse. While I was forced to use Windows at work, I used workspacer for a while. That was better than no tiling but still a huge pain to use (flickering on every key press in some programs, called "epilepsy mode" by my colleagues; slow startup; restart or crash every time the display configuration was changed; almost no documentation or ability to customize it). All other tiling window managers for Windows were even worse, some not starting at all, being incompatible with Windows 10, or not supporting multiple displays.

It doesn't look like Streamlink is immune to the challenges of Twitch ads: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/4949

i can't quite tell what you're asking for but check out https://streamlink.github.io/

Take a look at this: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/

Streamlink != Steam Link

alternatively, you can use streamlink to stream the video and let it open vlc for you.

A summary of my use case: I like to watch Twitch streams via streamlink. For that purpose I use wtwitch, a terminal program which allows me to maintain a list of my favourite channels without a Twitch account, check which of those streamers are currently online and run a command to open their streams via streamlink.

Streamlink has very detailed and newbie friendly documentation. Here's the plugin you'd need to scrape Kick links.

I believe yt-dlp works and merges everything already for you. I use streamlink https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink for most of twitch stuff and all you have to do is pass in the vod url

Next you will need streamlink, again in the same powershell instance type.