This does seem like a personal preference. I quite like MacOS window management, and I hate Windows window management.
Specific to snapping, you'd prefer there was no way to snap windows at all - even if it didn't affect the current behaviour?
Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
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Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#12What about that interminable animation every time you fullscreen a window or switch between fullscreen windows? It should be at least twice as fast and there's not even any way to hack it to speed it up. You just have to live with it. ("reduce motion" changes it to a crossfade but doesn't make it faster)
While we're at it, the Dock has always been bad. And the top menu bar was good for the original Macintosh with a tiny screen but it makes no sense on a 4k display with many different app windows showing simultaneously. MacOS has a lot of relics of the past that Apple refuses to give up. I just see it as a tax I have to pay to get to use Apple Silicon.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#13I've been happily using yabai for years - I even wrote some custom functions in hammerspoon to send windows to new spaces, move focus, and swap windows around n/s/e/w with key-bindings. Can't imagine life without it :shrug:
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#14Probably for the same reason they won't support no-raise-on-focus or [sloppy-]focus-follows-mouse.
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#15They has enough with the groundbreaking announcement on wwdc of widgets in the desktop and Chrome... Sorry, "Web apps".
Maybe in 2025
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#16Just use Magnet https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12
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#17I don't miss it. I carefully dragged each window to align just right one time, and never had to redo it since. It persists across reboots, and remembers placements separately for the two monitor arrangements I use (laptop, laptop + big monitor) so I only had to do the fiddly work once.
That's interesting. I do use Windows with 2 monitors
and I do change placements/sizes of windows constantly - accordingly to the task
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#18Just use Rectangle app https://rectangleapp.com/
Thank you! I used to have a solution but after getting a new Mac I could never remember what it was called (a problem when an app just works and needs no interaction. You never need to know what it's called after you first install it!)
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#19Just use Rectangle app https://rectangleapp.com/
This doesn’t actually answer the question.
Re: Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
#20OSX / MacOS has always felt frustrating that way. There isn’t appreciation for making good use of desktop space. It favours littering windows of various sizes everywhere, and the Dock has always wanted to waste two rectangles of desktop on either side.