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MacOS window management is unfortunately a total mess. To the point that I still feel more productive on a dirt-cheap linux laptop, vs. my expensive work-isssued M1 machine with great hardware
Rectangle is the only way I find MacOS to be useful when it comes to window management.
undefined> If you’re trying to get it to act like Windows or your favorite Linux window manager, you’ll find it frustrating. However, if you absolutely insist then you should just install a third-party window snapping tool.
I mean there are things in Gnome that I prefer but what I found useful was to start using the workspaces / virtual desktops more and using the three finger swipe up a lot on my Air. That helped when using multiple profiles on chrome a lot because using cmd + ` was just not it for me.
Auto snapping would be great but at least you can tile windows to left / right so that's something and you can add keybinds for it
Virtual desktops (accessible with keyboard shortcuts) are a must IMO. I usually set up ten of them at a time- MacOS is actually mostly ok in that regard, expect for the fade animation you can never turn off, and the fact that as soon as you full-screen a window, the system insists on moving it to a totally new workspace (that can't work with any your predefined shortcuts), instead of just full-screening it within the current desktop. What were they thinking?
Yeah that behaviour is a bit weird with the full screen = new desktop I never really understood that either. But otherwise it works pretty well I just wish it would auto add desktops as you go like Gnome
It's not better or worse, it's just...different.
If you've been using Macs for years and you learn all of the Mac-specific shortcuts and window management tools, it's fantastic.
If you're trying to get it to act like Windows or your favorite Linux window manager, you'll find it frustrating. However, if you absolutely insist then you should just install a third-party window snapping tool.
I feel the same about Windows not having virtual desktops for years. Windows users had other solutions, but coming from both macOS and Linux window managers, I thought it was ridiculous they had nothing built-in, so I always installed a third-party virtual desktop tool for Windows.
Yeah that's a good way to put it, when I picked up my Air recently I was extremely frustrated by how it didn't quite do things quite like Gnome 40x and how it missed some of the Windows things like Window Snapping but once you get used to the gestures it's not so bad.
Also yeah virtual desktops are a god send on Gnome/MacOS it's frustrating to not have them on Windows.
@gzrrt @tastypoobutt go for the iPad Air gen 5 with stage manager, works great!
tmux manages windows just fine :)
Rectangle is the only way I find MacOS to be useful when it comes to window management.